Monthly Archives: June 2012

Dispatches From the Aspen Ideas Festival

Posted on 06/30/2012 by

Here’s an idea: If you are a presenter at the Aspen Ideas Festival — and not one of the part-time Aspen-residing, 2nd, 3rd, 4th… 17th home-owning members of the audience — it may not be such a great idea to … Continue reading →

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Funniest Interview Ever

Posted on 06/30/2012 by

Here’s a link to the audio for one of the most hilarious interviews I’ve ever heard: a dad asking his two daughters (three and five) why the five-year old gave the younger sister the “worst haircut ever.” Haircutting takes, like, … Continue reading →

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Are Haircuts and Exercise Luxury Items?

Posted on 06/28/2012 by

Sorry to keep beating a dead horse here with the Atlantic Monthly’s mommy issues, but I can’t stop talking about the work/family balance. Here’s another rebuttal to Anne-Marie Slaughter’s article on the myth of women ‘having it all.’ Here’s Dana … Continue reading →

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Westward Ho! Off to the Aspen Ideas Festival

Posted on 06/28/2012 by

I’m headed to the Aspen Institute Ideas Festival, where I’ll be on a panel to discuss: The 21st century child: What is the goal of parenting? I’ll try to send a few updates from some of the sessions. The lineup … Continue reading →

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Are Professional Women Acting Like Cry-Babies?

Posted on 06/27/2012 by

Here’s Lori Gottlieb’s take on the Anne-Marie Slaughter piece at the Atlantic in which she argues that highly educated professional women are delusional narcissists to think, as Slaughter suggests, that if we just fix all the gender inequalities and structural … Continue reading →

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Afternoon Rants, Rewind

Posted on 06/26/2012 by

I’ve got a sanitized version of my Elizabeth Wurtzel hate fest at HuffPo here. In case you missed it the first time around, it’s a re-tread of yesterday’s piece minus the F*ck yous. And this is my TIME.com column today, an … Continue reading →

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Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Woman Problem, Part Two

Posted on 06/26/2012 by

I’m still super riled up over Elizabeth Wurtzel’s screed in the Atlantic (based on a much more nuanced Atlantic article by Anne-Marie Slaughter) against unpaid labor. She thinks she’s writing a screed against rich lazy housewives but, really, she’s misunderstanding … Continue reading →

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Earning My Keep

Posted on 06/25/2012 by

Oh, the luxury of being ignorant and sanctimonious! Where to start with the umbrage? There are so many different things wrong with Elizabeth Wurtzel’s article (which was based on Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Atlantic article on why women still can’t have it all) … Continue reading →

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Bad Seed or Bad Soil? The Case of the Bullied Bus Monitor

Posted on 06/21/2012 by

I’m trying to make sense of this: I know the kids behaved monstrously, and verbally assaulting an elderly (apparently hearing-impaired) grandmother/bus monitor is indefensible. But I’ve got some questions, too. Why is an elderly, hearing impaired grandmother serving as a … Continue reading →

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Breaking Dawn: I can’t Quit You

Posted on 06/20/2012 by

I like to think of this as kind of a full-service operation. One stop shopping for your blogging needs. So after a little bit of an entertainment drought — what? you weren’t busting a gut over bladder infections and underpaid … Continue reading →

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