Living
in Odd Times
FULL ARTICLES
To Your Health?
What's Good...What's Bad...Who
Cares?
Can the Art of Driving
Be Recovered?
Selected Vehicular Behaviors
Nominated for Oblivion
S*x Is Still the
Subject We Can't Discuss
Hanky-Panky is Fine, but Gender
is Taboo
An "Emotional" Subject
(But You'll Have to Guess Which
One)
Mallophobia
A Whimsical Look at Shopping
Malls and Mental Health
SUVs for Beginners
New Variants on the Concept of
"Wretched Excess"
Who's to Blame?
Thoughts on an Overly Litigious
Society
Is the Problem That We
Compete?
Not All Forms of Competition
are
the Same
Touchy, Touchy!
PCSpeak and Other Impediments
to Communication
Crime and Prestige
A Cautionary Tale
Sweating to the Oldies
'Cuz Shaping Up is Hard to Do
Important People at
the Bottom
On Appreciating Service Workers
A "Consumer's" Open
Letter to the News Media
I'd Rather You Called Me
"Wifflebrain"
SELECTED SECTIONS
Our mores are becoming more like
those of
aristocratic courtiers.
Normally the threat of physical
consequences tends
to improve certain kinds of manners.
Malls put people in a childlike,
heedless
state by beckoning them to bliss out on the goods.
The
inability of culture to keep up with change is behind many contemporary
problems.
Media
culture brings great uniformity to behavior, but without any
socially-enabling coherence.
Perceptions
of contradictory gender interests have evolved into a major "fault
line" in
American politics.
According
to the prevailing iconography, it's column right for men, column left
for women.
We've
accepted a view that today's corporate social order embodies male
interests and
values--when it's often profoundly testosterone-hostile.
