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Japanese Men Learn to Be Nice to Their Wives

by angela on September 12, 2008

“I can’t win. I won’t win. I don’t want to win.”

– Toast of the National Chauvinistic Husbands Association

Apparently Japan is looking down the barrel of a major marital crisis because of recent legislation that allows wifes to receive 1/2 of their husband’s retirement in the event of divorce. While most men have blown off the threat, there’s a small group that attend AA-style meetings with the goal of rebuilding their relationships with their wives after years of neglect.

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2008 Flood Recovery in Cedar Rapids, IA

by angela on July 28, 2008

Sally Blinn (Colorado), over at iReport, recently visited Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Sally’s photos, and some of her comments on the situation today:

The flood victims in Cedar Rapids Iowa still need our support and assistance. I just returned home from my class reunion in Cedar Rapids and found the situation there to be devastating. Block after [...]

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Why It’s So Hard to Teach Students These Days

by graham on July 24, 2008

George Leef reviews “The Dumbest Generation” by Mark Bauerlein:
To sum up, even though Americans now have more formal education than ever – more classroom time, more degrees – the young generation is quite poorly educated. It isn’t just that they don’t know much, but that they’re not much interested in acquiring knowledge and ill-equipped to [...]

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Therapy for the Wealthy, Part 2: Handling Success

by graham on July 15, 2008

Yesterday I wrote about depression and narcissism in the wealthy, based on a the recent New York Times article titled “Challenges of $600-a-Session Patients.” Today I want to talk about the second striking part of the article–handling success.
Angela and I have recently been talking about “the good student” (registration required). The good student is somebody [...]

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Therapy for the Wealthy: Part 1

by graham on July 15, 2008

There’s so much interesting insight into human behavior in this article, I recommend reading the whole thing. There are two parts of the article that interested me in particular, and I’ll cover them in two separate posts.
The first part:
“In my experience, there was a high incidence of depression in the people who were born [...]

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