June 9, 2011
Conservative parents have found something to complain about for every generation. First it was Elvis and his corrupting hip swings, then it was Marilyn Manson, and when I was a kid it was Harry Potter books with all their black magic and paganism. The current panic that conservative parents are trying to raise is that ...
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October 19, 2009
Almost half the youngsters are happiest when they’re online. Is this the end of the world? Easy access to porn aside, there are actually some good reasons why the world wide web is preferable to the world, at least according to the Times’ Caitlin Moran. For one thing, you don’t have to murder people to ...