An article about Judith Warner. That woman must be shot. "Oh, poor me. I'm labeling my children's toys by color and worrying about piano lessons. Poor me. But free daycare will help everything for me even though I am quite well off and wouldn't dream of using daycare." (Thanks, Kip.)
The definitive link on the Terry Shiavo story. For all the people who have found their way to this blog by googling "Terry Shiavo," go there. I wish I could write something good on the topic, but I'm still in the sucking-up-information phase. (Thanks, Sam.)
A speech by Bruce Katz. "An Urban Age in a Suburban Nation?" Katz speaks on the future of the American city. Our nation, from its very inception, has been ambivalent, if not hostile, to the city. From Thomas Jefferson's "Pestilence City" in the 18th century, to the nativistic movements of the 1850s and 1890s, to Frank Lloyd Wright's "Vanishing City" in the 1930's, to futurist tracts more recently, the city has always been perceived as dirty and unhealthy, bureaucratic and antiquated, home to people and concepts that were not quite American.
Or as Thomas Jefferson famously wrote: "When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe."