Tag Archives: Society

Bangkokitis is an extreme form of the culture shock that many tourists experience in foreign lands, magnified by the discordant meeting of modernity and tradition.

To be or not to be.

Being a parent is not right; it's a privilege...Most men do nothing to earn that privilege.

People are out to dismantle Christmas as we know it! You’ve got film director and evangelical atheist Brian Flemming declaring “War on Christianity” as part of a marketing campaign for his The God Who Wasn’t There film. “No Christmas pageant or Nativity display is safe from our troops,” says Flemming. …

Everyone sitting in some Norman Rockwell painting: the myth of the family holiday.

To promise to stay together "until death do us part" now has a different meaning to it had 100, or 1,000 or more years ago.

In Harris Interactive poll results announced this week, a vast majority (70%) of U.S. adults say they most look forward to spending time with their family and friends when thinking about the upcoming holidays. Trailing far behind in most anticipated holiday activites are dinners and parties (7%), shopping for perfect …

The comments are the heart of BlogCritics, a wild, after-the-storm river; wide, deep and dark, glistening with flotsam and jetsam.

Offbeat reflections on serious living.

It’s all relative isn’t it? To the world’s poorest citizens living lives on the bleakest edge of subsistence, the lives of America’s most disaffected homeless might seem regal; and the ladder rises to the working poor, middle class, upper middle class, and affluent. We looked at a marketing research company …