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Flotsam & Jetsam
Fake Trends Morph Into Old Person Sex Thing
8:47AM Hamilton Nolan | Here is how fake trends turn into troubling fake trends: Wooed into masculine complacency by male body lotion ads, men become metrotextual and start signing their text messages with “kisses”. Next thing you know, grandpa’s sexting. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Are You Sufficiently Exploiting Your Child’s Looks, For Money?
5:01AM Hamilton Nolan | Raising a child in our modern world can be expensive, what with their constant nagging for new “Gameboys” and “contraception”. Fortunately your child’s dewy, youthful innocence can be sold off to a modelling agency, for sweet, sweet money. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
‘We Became Legends At The Olive Garden’
2:43AM Hamilton Nolan | Three-way sex officially becomes boring.
Flotsam & Jetsam
Cougars On Top
9:13PM Andrew Belonsky | Popular culture may tire of them, but cougars are here to stay. Sociologists said so!
Online
Facebook’s Unspoken, Intrademographic Culture War
7:35PM Andrew Belonsky | In what may be a sign of an impending generational civil war, a growing number of 20 and 30-somethings are avoiding Facebook. They’re called refuseniks. But, living in the 21st century, many of them can’t truly refuse. Traitors! More »
People
Oprah’s Tyson/Holyfield Matchup, The Death Knell For Macho
6:27PM Andrew Belonsky | Macho men are not so in vogue these days. And, with some help from Oprah, the trend, once so prevalent in pop culture, may very well be dead. Or on its way, at least. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Nudes Running The Streets Of Williamsburg
2:33AM Hamilton Nolan | First there was the nude guy at the taco truck. Now there’s another nude guy running the Williamsburg streets in broad daylight, for laffs. We thought you should know. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Time To Work Yourself To Death
6:20AM Hamilton Nolan | The Way We Live Now: On the job. Who can afford to retire? Who can afford to take a vacation? Who can afford to stop thinking about making money for one single instant? Nobody we know. More »
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Mysterious ‘Cougar’ Woman Discovered In Middle America
4:52AM Hamilton Nolan | The ‘Cougar’ phenomenon—which never grows old, or loses its journalistic depth—is trickling down to the more…average precincts of American trendwatching. The Wilkes-Barre (PA) Times Leader went “on the prowl” for local cougars, get it? They found one! More »
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