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Wouldn't You Be, Couldn't You Be, WON'T You Be The Narcissistic Society I Give Birth To?

WCityMike — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:00:50 -0800

A little old, but chock full of enough wackadoodle quotes to be your morning cup of head-go-boom-iness. FOX News on Mr. Rogers and his effect on "the narcissistic society he gave birth to": "This evil, evil man has now ruined a generation of kids." "Do you think that Mr. Rogers [...] ruined a crop of our newest, youngest generation?" "Instead of telling them 'you're special, you're great', why didn't he say, 'there's a lot of room for improvement, keep working on yourself'?" FOX & Friends viewers agreed, with one respondent attributing the blame to a trifecta of Mr. Rogers telling kids they were special, Sesame Street telling children "you need to be entertained to learn", and Dr. Spock's advocation of "lax discipline, no spanking." The "study" that the Fox & Friends morning hosts refer to is an interview by Jeffrey Zaslow of the Wall Street Journal of Louisiana State University finance professor Don Chance, who, reflecting upon the entitlement he felt his students seeking A's displayed, realized, "It just hit me. We can blame Mr. Rogers." Not, by the way, a study. Chance believes that the reason that those of his students who were Asian-born did not "hit [him] up for an A" was because of Mr. Rogers, among others, as "representative of a culture of excessive doting." He targets "you're special", "they're just children", "call me [first name]", and "tell me about your day" as further indications.

Cue Mister Rogers - then follow steps 2, 3, 4, and 5...

puckish — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:09:38 -0800

Want to be a good neighbor but don't know how? Now there are checklists! (Chicago and SF focus) Favorite Links: 7 rules for talking about gentrification Bodega Party in a Box ($) How to Enroll Your Kid in Public School (via Instructables)

Ikea comes to Red Hook

Armitage Shanks — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 09:21:51 -0800

Red Hook is New York's perennial next-year neighborhood, perenially held back by huge housing projects and bad transportation, despite some ambitious proposals. Ikea's proposed store has been the subject of a long battle between "it'll bring jobs" and "it'll destroy the neighborhood". It's finally going to happen, and soon these buildings will be a parking lot.

Block party!

jasper411 — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:34:05 -0800

Find out about political donors in your neighborhood Fundrace Block Party searches political donor databases and, with the input of your address and zip code, will give you a map (and spreadsheet if you like) which tells you the names and addresses of your neighbors who have supported national political candidates, and how much they contributed. You can use this information to have a block party!

Although I think this is way cool (I'm surrounded by 51 contributors to democrats and only 11 to republicans), this also struck me as a bit scary from the privacy perspective (I now know who is giving money to the whom, and where they live). Who's in *your* neighborhood? (via kottke)

the baltimore blues

_sirmissalot_ — Fri, 06 Dec 2002 15:16:57 -0800

At least this guy’s not giving up. "I can't quite figure out what's going on at 1704. From the landlord on down, they seem to have a pact with the devil. Other than the roof over there, every other aspect of that building is wrong. Everything. 1704 is a malignancy killing this whole block." Amazing documentation of someone not afraid to take a stand in Baltimore. (more inside)