“Worker bee, where were you when I needed you?”
Quote of the Day: “If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?” – Will Rogers
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I’m pretty sure your profile on Match.com didn’t say anything about you living in a bubble!
Quote of the Day: “There’s nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you’re insightful about it.” – Dennis Miller
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How good fathers contribute to their kids’ lives
Men bring much more to the parenting enterprise than money, when many fathers are highly involved in childrearing.
Like many of her peers in Hollywood, Jennifer Aniston, not to mention scholars and writers opining on fatherhood these days, she has come to the conclusion that dads are dispensable: “Women are realizing it more and more knowing that they don’t have to settle with a man just to have that child,” she said at a press conference a few years ago.
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Young pigs are taught at an early age how to survive in a cruel, bacon-loving world!
Quote of the Day: “My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.” – Woody Allen
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Photographer Jake Naughton documents the struggle to provide girls an education in Kibera
In Kibera, a division of Nairobi, Kenya, girls there don’t have much of a shot at an education. Kenya is still very patriarchal, and if a family has both boys and girls, it’s the boys who will be granted the opportunity to attend secondary school. (Photos)
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Skateboarding off the side of a mountain seemed like a such a great idea! Funeral is Friday at 4:00!
Quote of the Day: “Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.” – Peter Ustinov
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Are McMansions making a comeback?
Will the McMansion ever die?
The McMansion with a giant SUV parked in the driveway were pretty much the epitome of middle class excess during the housing bubble. Then gas prices spiked, the crash came, and both houses and cars shrank a bit as Americans turned thrifty.
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How Americans speak English totally different from each other
Americans don’t exactly agree with everyone on the pronunciations of words. A major part of what makes American English so interesting as a dialect are the regional accents.
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The 3 biggest myths about marriage today
For most married men and women today, marriage looks pretty good.
Liza Mundy paints a dismal portrait of heterosexual marriage. In the bleak rendering, contemporary marriage comes across as unequal, unfair, and unhappy to today’s wives. Wives are burdened with an unequal and unfair “second shift” of housework and childcare, husbands enjoy “free time” while their wives toil away at home, lingering gender inequalities in family life leave many wives banging “their heads on their desks in despair,” and one poor woman cannot even have a second child because she does “everything” and her husband does nothing. Mundy also suggests that recent declines in women’s happiness can be laid at the feet of “lingering inequity in male-female marriage.”
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Living in a world where marriage is on the decline
So what is the future of marriage?
In 1996 a symposium titled “Can Government Save the Family?” was published by the Hoover Institution. A who’s-who list of culture warriors—including Dan Quayle, James Dobson, John Engler, John Ashcroft, and David Blankenhorn—were asked, “What can government do, if anything, to make sure that the overwhelming majority of American children grow up with a mother and father?”
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The high price of tuition-free college in Sweden
Swedish college students still graduate with a ton of debt.
Colleges and universities in Sweden are free. But students there still end up with a lot of debt. The average at the beginning of 2013 was roughly 124,000 Swedish krona ($19,000). Sure, the average US student was carrying about 30% more, at $24,800.
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How did the work-life balance get so awful in America?
The most important reason why we rank so poorly is the increase in single mothers who face an extraordinary burden relative to their overseas counterparts.
If you listen to the leaders in the United States this is the greatest country in the history of everything. But, if you read international surveys the U.S. is a disgrace among developed countries. The health care system is famously expensive and inaccessible. The education system is broken. And the income inequality, it’s just famous.
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