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The marriage hoax
Maria Russo
Conservative moralists, alarmed by the divorce rate, want us to
return to a Golden Age of Marriage. Too bad it never existed.
Real Life Rock Top 10
Greil Marcus
A Hibernian in the woodpile
George Kelly
On St. Patrick's Day, I'm black and green and not blue at all.
“So, what do you think, am I normal?”
Michael Castleman
How the Web has changed access to sex information -- and the kind of advice people seek. Second of two parts.
Banning the bullies
Fiona Morgan
In the wake of school shootings, state legislatures are considering laws to crack down on harassment and violence in schools. How will they tell the bullies from the victims?
Can dry humping get me pregnant?
Michael Castleman
According to sex-advice columnists Americans today aren't much better informed than their grandparents were. First of two parts.
Barbie’s boy’s bodacious birthday blowout!
Chris Colin
As the Ken doll turns 40, let us not forget 3M Transparent Tape!
“The enemies are capitalists”
Jeff Stark
In a comic (sort of) new series, the man who built "The X-Files" on paranoia about government finds something new to worry about.
It’s not about church and state
Arianna Huffington
Two words for the Bible-thumpers and lefties who are trashing Bush's faith-based initiative: Alcoholics Anonymous.
Mixed message
DJ Spooky
DJ Spooky (That Subliminal Kid) runs a sound check on your earlobes in his frequency-testing cut-and-paste extravaganza "Metro Mix."
Chattel wear
Carina Chocano
Uniforms have always been about servitude, but the degradation thing is new.
Battle of the celebrity gender theorists
Amy Benfer
Christina Hoff Sommers skewers Carol Gilligan, Jane Fonda and their "girl crisis" rhetoric.
Geek TV
Janelle Brown
"The Lone Gunmen" strikes out, but "BattleBots" and "Junkyard Wars" portray culturally ascendant nerds in all their glory.
“Inside Pitch” by George Gmelch
King Kaufman
Podunk towns, brutal competition, wooden bats and dirty laundry -- an anthropologist shows what the lives of pro baseball players are really like.
When animals give back
Carina Chocano
Whether you're Sen. Robert Byrd or Eminem, it's the convoluted intention that counts, not the offensive slur. Plus: The KKK and Imelda on beauty.
“Purified by Fire” by Stephen Prothero
Laura Miller
Denounced as "heathen," then touted as tasteful, cremation in America
has lately taken a turn for the tacky.
Freezer culture
Christopher Kemp
You don't need religion for life after death -- just $35,000 and a taste for liquid nitrogen.
Robert Thompson watches TV for a living
Geoff Edgers
How one professor turned into a pop culture pundit, where he stands on "C.H.i.P.S" and why he's quoted regularly in the New York Times.
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