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Background Noise

Nov 9, 09
(by Mama MPJ)
3 comments
Sober Salon

“The level of sexual imagery in modern life is astounding. I knew intuitively this was true, but when you tune into it, you just can’t believe it. I click on the Yahoo! finance page, and there’s this blond model in a low-cut dress looking at a computer screen and nibbling alluringly on the temple of her glasses, apparently very aroused by the latest S&P 500 report.”
~ A.J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically

Warning: the links in this post lead to material that may be triggering to sex addicts and their partners.

Years ago, when my husband Mark and I were first…

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Drug War = Culture War?

Mar 17, 09
(by Jason Schwartz)
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Controversy Alley

A friend, Matt, wondered if the premise of this Frank Rich column will have implications for drug policy:

What has happened between 2001 and 2009 to so radically change the cultural climate? Here, at last, is one piece of good news in our global economic meltdown: Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years. Culture wars are a luxury the country — the G.O.P. included — can no longer afford.

I don’t think that the drug war has traditionally been part of the abortion/homosexuality/sexuality-in-pop-culture culture wars, but…

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Capitalizing on Addiction

Aug 9, 08
(by Mama MPJ)
9 comments
Sober Salon

A year ago, when I was trying to get through to my husband that we were spending faster than we were earning and that our credit cushion was wearing dangerously thin, he had a brilliant idea, “Let’s get another credit card.” Yep. We’re running out of credit, we’ll get more credit, problem solved, ta da! (Our own family version of an Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drilling project.)

That was clearly not a good solution and not the one we took, but it was the most obvious solution, especially with credit card companies sending offers in the mail every day. In…

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