A few ice cubes for your drink
Some interesting reading around the web:
1. Those uber-fabulous stay-at-home moms aren't the only ones who are just totally "over" the whole idea of working for pay. Apparently, lots of middle-aged guys are, too. This New York Times piece, part of their ongoing series on "The New Gender Divide," looks at the new idleness. It's enough to make you wonder if we're reaching the point when no one's going to bother showing up anymore.
2. What is it about meth? Slate.com media critic Jack Shafer is one of several voices-of-reason who's been looking at the latest epidemic-that-isn't. Media and law enforcement types have achieved a kind of perfect synergy in hyping the idea that, despite all evidence to the contrary, pretty much everyone in America is hooked on meth. In this piece, Shafer takes on the "meth registries" that are the latest craze in battling this latest scourge. Because, really, stashing our cold medicine behind the counter isn't ridiculous enough.
3. News flash: full-time motherhood can be boring. In the kind of essay that would cause a nuclear meltdown in the United States, a British essayist confesses that her kids are, honestly, not always that interesting. In this London Daily Mail column, Helen Kiriwn-Taylor asserts that the honest admission that one's children are not, in fact, the center of the universe, might actually be good for kids. And parents.
