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...what's a parent to do? We do what Americans have always done. This is, after all, a country that systematizes: we create seminars on how to make friends, teach classes in grieving and make pet walking a profession. In that light, Gregg Heinzmann's praise of unstructured play seems almost un-American. Any activity, no matter how innocent or trivial or spontaneous, can become specialized in America. So if our children are to have sports, we will make leagues and teams, write schedules and rule books, publish box scores and rankings, hire coaches and refs, buy uniforms and equipment...
...society." McGruder says he's exploring "those murky depths where you're trying to figure out what's racism, what's ignorance, what's naivete." When an old white lady pats Riley on the head and calls him "cutie pie," the boy responds angrily that he's "nobody's pet Negro." Neither is McGruder...
...Palmer, a former military policewoman. "They're just a lot more tolerant. When you're in a foxhole, you don't care what religion the guy next to you belongs to." Army witches even have a sense of humor. At Halloween, Palmer turns her home, where she keeps a pet wolf named Spirit, into a haunted house for trick-or-treaters. "What could be better," she says, "than a haunted house with real witches and a wolf that howls on command...
...glut hurts in another key way. It creates well-capitalized competition for companies that have already gone public. This is an underappreciated phenomenon. Each new Internet IPO equips yet another company to steal business from the incumbents. Instead of one online pet store, there are three. That pushes all companies in the same line of enterprise further from the future profits that, to a degree, all Internet investors count...
AIBO won't recognize your voice, unfortunately, and his mouth is too small to carry a newspaper. In fact, he has no practical applications at all, though Sony hopes developers may one day produce upgrades. Then again, the current AIBO is the kind of pet that I (and 2,000 others) like--utterly useless, and utterly cute. Guess I'll have to settle for a hamster...