Time Magazine's A Frosh New Start describes Vanderbilt University's $150M public works project to create an all/every freshman 10 dorm "Commons" where-- if I read this right-- they "will help first-years get acclimated to college life."

I suppose it occurred to no one that the "college life" these first-years are getting acclimated to is exactly the kind of artificial world of the Commons?

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October 23, 2008

The Graying Of Kindergarten: The Goal Is To Keep Them In Puberty, Part 1

The article is actually called The Lengthening of Childhood, but somewhere sometime the other phrase caught on, which is a shame, because this phrase is much more accurate.

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September 23, 2008

Teenage Girls May Be Having Oral Sex, But The Problem Is You

I sincerely pity the current generation of teens who have to live in a world containing the current generation of adults.

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September 18, 2008

Recollections Of Your Parents Before And After You Have Children

Did you know my blog has more readers than Psychiatric Times and Family Process combined? That sad fact compels me to refer you all to something excellent in both.

For you parents out there (especially women):

Before the birth of your first child, what was your recollection of your own childhood relationship with your parents? Were Mom and Dad close to you, distant, domineering, warm, etc?

If the question was then asked four years after the birth of your first kid, how would your answer change, if at all?

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August 20, 2008

If You're Watching, It's For You

On the Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson, a joke about "man-ginas," a few drug/DUI references, a Kristy Ally fat joke ("uses her swimming pool to cook spaghetti") and a homosexual reference.

And I think about how TV has changed, things unimaginable 20 years ago are routine now. I guess they'll do anything to get the coveted youth demographic.

And then I think, wait a second...

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August 12, 2008

A Trip You May Have Taken

He pulls over at the curb. All the shades are pulled down, the house looks dead. The house-- shack-- is on the beach.

He gets out of the car.

"Tracy," he calls out, expecting nothing.

He walks to the screen door. It's locked, but the inside door is wide open. He smells pot, and something that is not pot, and something that is feces. He has never seen this place, yet it is, somehow, exactly as he imagined it would be. It is also worse.

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July 8, 2008

What Did You (Not) Do In 2008?

To the twenty-somethings out there:

Twenty years from now, when you look back on this year:

you had ideas

And you had youth and energy

you had interest rates so low they were negative relative to inflation-- you could borrow money at literally no cost.

and a ready made excuse in case of failure-- Oh, I was young then

and little responsibility, no family

You had the internet-- global distribution or marketing, for free
information on anything, for free

And then the time passes.

At least you got your file ready for the promotions committee. At least you got that summer job that'll look good on your college application. At least you watched the whole season of Grey's Anatomy and only vomited twice.

I'm sure, in twenty years, it will have been worth it.

Stop trying to figure out what you want to do with your life, and just do something with it.

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July 3, 2008

The Boy Who Learned To Talk Too Late And Too Fast

I.

This is the story of a boy, he just turned four, but he couldn't talk yet- nothing more than one or two words at a time, "mik" and "mo Nemo!" and that was it. The worry was that there was something wrong with him, and everyone who discussed it never said the word Asperger's.

There are a million reasons he could have this speech delay, including but not limited to genetics, increased paternal age, thiomersal, elevated serotonin, or parts of any of those, but for certain it could not possibly be related to being bookended by an cooing pork sausage of a baby brother and a preposterously hyperverbal, parentified 5 year old sister. and a father who was angry all the time because the junior partner is an idiot.

But at least mommy was for him, she got him, she was tender and strong and consistent and available, a brick wall between him and schizophrenia.

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April 16, 2008

The Sex-Starved Wife

On the one hand, you have articles in the Economist saying people are spending less time at work and more at home, on the other hand Time writes about the sex-starved wife. If they're both home more and at work less, why aren't they naked?

The answer isn't porn.

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