Bad kids

I hadn't written anything about Steubenville thus far because I felt I had nothing to add. Rape is terrible and deserves to be punished....

"Young and impulsive"

Caryatis pointed me to this (relatively tame)  Savage Love letter , from a 28-year-old man with a 28-year-old husband he'd been with si...

Again with the lattes

You who are young and broke, did you know that buying coffee out every day costs more than not doing so? For what is, I estimate, the ten bi...

Recent scientific findings

-Underage drinkers enjoy beer . -Otherwise lovely women were horrible people in middle school . -Ballerinas are pretty .

The wedding not dreamed of since one was a little girl

On today's Savage Lovecast, Dan advises a mother (who's anonymous - this is not a post about parental-overshare) who thinks her 11-y...

Coffee politics

Remember the young woman so privileged she was applying for food stamps ? The detail readers honed in on was the $1.50 coffee-shop coffee t...

Un verre de vin, s'il vous plaît.

Think of the children. Specifically the 18-year-olds given wine on a class trip to France , with their parents' permission. To Paris , ...

Shorter Sunday Review

-Ross Douthat pulls a right-wing YPIS and accuses Mayor Bloomberg of being a coastal elite in his pro-gun-control advocacy. -Frank Bruni as...

It's time for a national conversation about the refusal of teenage boys to make chit-chat at the hairdresser's

So the latest warning sign , apparently , is that the Newtown killer failed to make small-talk during a haircut. It seems to me that there...

Posted from a coffee shop

Found via the usual via - as in, I'm no longer sure - an interesting post  (part of a series) about "hipsters on food stamps."...

Gute times UPDATED

The moment to read Robert Coleman's account of Berlin debauchery is probably not on one's way out the door to make an early commute...

The neurosis Facebook invented

Emily "Prudence" Yoffe (and bear with me even if you're not a Prudie fan, this is merely the point of departure) recently got ...

The no time for a boyfriend brigade

Hanna Rosin's Atlantic story about how the hook-up culture benefits - and is perpetuated by - young women is kind of great. Finally, so...

Work-like experience

Disclaimer: This post is inspired by recent controversies in the UK, but is mostly about the States. Not a new topic here at WWPD, but a new...

"[I]t’s a specific aesthetic—slim, muscular, flat, I loved that."

Has anyone else noticed the extent to which body type , which for the most part is a case of you've got what you've got, gets confu...

Off

I approached both of the recent articles -  Rachel Aviv 's in the New Yorker , and Scott Anderson 's in this week's NYT Magazine...

In offensiveness today

-From Slate France, the unsurprising connections between far-right politics (in France and Germany) and the local-sustainable food movement...

Not under my roof

Parental support until age 18 and no later remains etched in cultural mythology, but fails to correctly describe expectations. The most obvi...

"Special privileges"

Calling Flavia , Flavia's commenter "i," and the usual WWPD audience: The following just appeared on my Facebook newsfeed: ...

Your daily summary of the Internet

-Fashion site Refinery29 tells you which restaurants have the hottest waitresses . Tyler Cowen, take note . -'Damn neighborhood kids won...