Links to Your World, Tuesday March 23

They’re called “Mall Girls,” mostly middle-class teens who turn tricks—not to support a drug addiction but to buy stuff. Disturbing.

 

David Frum on the health care debate: “Today’s defeat for free-market economics and Republican values is a huge win for the conservative entertainment industry” (Read it all)

 

New College Graduates To Be Cryogenically Frozen Until Job Market Improves.

 

“Research suggests that, in middle age at least, absent-mindedness is a particularly male problem.” Find the article, um, now where did I put that link….Oh yeah.

 

Holy Hip-Hop at SXSW

Slate explores the phenomenon of young women uploading YouTube videos of their shopping trips, called “hauls.”

 

Thomas Frank in the WSJ offers some worthy cautions against what he sees as excesses from conservatives on the Texas Board of Education.

 

As someone who lived in Maine a couple of my high school years, I was glad to read about an apparent revival in Maine.

 

Posts at Get Anchored since last Tuesday:

How Millennial Are You?

Song of the Week: "Long Sermon" by Brad Paisley

Nicole Marett’s World Race

The Whole Book of Proverbs in Five Sentences

Hilarious!

LeaderLines: Observations on Leadership

Lost: Making the Reading List

Review of Dawn Eden’s “The Thrill of the Chaste”

Winning Ways: Telling People About God

Lost: “Nothing’s Irreversible”