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I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
The summer season is a barren desert, but thank God for "Doggie Day Care" and the encore of "Show Biz Moms & Dads"; plus "Good Girls Don't ..." goes wrong.
You are who you know: Part 2
Andrew Leonard
Social software pioneers have the Internet biz buzzing again. But their new networks are even more valuable as booster shots for human connection.
Feet forward
Heather Havrilesky
The fourth season of "Six Feet Under" offers
an exquisitely sad, gorgeous picture of the thrills and catastrophes of everyday life.
Trashing the Hallmark card mom
Katy Read
Weary of saccharine stereotypes, a diverse group of women is demanding that society do more than pay lip service to mothers.
The Fix
Salon Staff
Lara Flynn Boyle declares herself "100 percent for Bush," Picasso painting goes missing and Sylvester Stallone offers the world ... pudding.
Is “Barney” destroying my kids’ brains?
Katy Read
A few weeks ago, a study connected TV watching to ADHD. But the findings have been blown way out of proportion.
You surf just like a woman
Katharine Mieszkowski
Marketers held a conference to find out what women do online. The answer: everything except the one crucial thing -- look for cleaning products.
Bring your earplugs to Yellowstone
Amanda Griscom
When the Bush administration greenlighted snowmobiles in the park, it promised technology would keep the noise down. The new "quiet" models tearing around are anything but.
Columbine, five years later
Peter Wilkinson
The kids who survived the worst school massacre in U.S. history have graduated, and some of them have even forgiven. But many of their parents have not.
Right Hook
Mark Follman
Howard Stern declares war on Bush's "religious agenda"; Gary Bauer claims gay sex is deadlier than smoking. Plus: Presidential Prayer Team prays for the CIA to nab Osama.
Letters
Salon Staff
"Therapy is not terrible, autocratic or disempowering." Readers respond to Meredith Maran's account of her addiction to psychotherapy.
Diagnosing Judy Dean
Geraldine Sealey
Parenting through art direction
Christopher Healy
A certain breed of parent is happily buying postmodern rugs, art deco lamps and vintage sports posters for their children. But who are these items really for?
Letters
Salon Staff
"Idiot! Balderdash! Poppycock! Rrrrgh!" Readers get aggressive about Christopher Healy's story on yelling, "psychological aggession" and child rearing.
BECAUSE I SAID SO!!
Christopher Healy
A new study says that yelling at your children -- even if you're trying to protect them -- is "psychological aggression."
Convincing New Hampshire
Josh Benson
Dean's getting his message across to the state's media -- but are voters paying attention?
I don’t
Dan Savage
I'd love to satisfy my mother and annoy Rick Santorum by getting married to my boyfriend. But I care for him -- and our son -- too much to risk it.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers praise Laurie Wagner's decision to let her kids "go crazy" but tell children's books' author Madonna to keep her day job.
Madonna the conformist
Emily Jenkins
Her second awful children's book, "Mr. Peabody's Apples," is a finger-wagging, moralistic tale that condemns a kid to permanent guilt for a very minor sin.
These are your kids on drugs
Sheerly Avni
Journalist Meredith Maran spent two years searching for answers to America's epidemic of teenage addiction, while her son Jesse found his own answers -- and got clean -- through the Bible and the Baptist Church.
Twilight of the dorks?
Ian R. Williams
Geeks and nerds produced the art and science that define the modern age. But now that everybody's climbing on the dork bandwagon, where's the rage and resentment that fueled their creativity going to come from?
Letter to a pregnant friend
Anne Lamott
What advice do I have for new parents? Assemble a pit crew, don't expect to take showers, and beware of noxious orange poop.
Hollywood goes down
Rebecca Traister
A spate of new films -- one with girl-next-door Meg Ryan -- depict graphic oral sex scenes. Is the film industry's portrayal of sexuality finally beginning to get real?
Navel-gazing their way through parenthood
Katie Allison Granju
Why do Gen X moms and dads have an insatiable appetite for reading and writing about the experience of raising kids?
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