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...wealthier and happier seem wrong?" Uscher-Pines asks. Hell no, is her answer. So press on with complete confidence that marriage is The Right Thing To Do. Too many women find themselves "becoming a wife before you actually have a husband," she adds. And don't let your friends tell you the hot pursuit of a ring is antifeminist; actually, it's all about empowerment. And, somehow, the environment. "Basically, if you aren't selfish enough to get married for yourself, get married for poor, feeble Mother Earth," she writes. "She's begging...
...these excuses is insurmountable. You just have to exercise a little savvy. Make him hang out with married people. Offer him a bribe, such as a hairy dog, if that's what he wants. To head off any incipient claustrophobia on his part, start having more ladies' nights. Tell him you don't even want a diamond. And in a worse-case scenario, give him an ultimatum...
Humorist Roy Blount Jr. is one of America's most prolific authors and a regular panelist on NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. His latest book, Alphabet Juice is quasi dictionary/glossary of the English language, peppered with literary references, cultural oddities and hilarious musings on why we choose the words we do. TIME talked to Blount about the most literary band in America, why he advises investing $20,000 in mass transit and what Sarah Palin might mean for the future of politics...
...your major allies has been the advocacy group The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Tell me about how you first got involved with them. The Alliance has been the instrument of many, many good things. Our daughter was 17, going on 18, when she began showing symptoms of [schizophrenia]. We started stopping by their meetings after work and we quickly found out that, in spite of us having a child who had problems, there were so much more serious ones than ours. We ran into parents with two children who are schizophrenic, and they tried desperately to keep them...
...over the place and obscure in a classic Washington way; he detoured into blaming Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac and pointing his finger at Obama and "his cronies" for supporting those two incomprehensible institutions. Obama, by contrast, brought the bailout home in simple language: "Well, Oliver, first, let me tell you what's in the rescue package for you. Right now, the credit markets are frozen up, and what that means, as a practical matter, is that small businesses and some large businesses just can't get loans. If they can't get a loan, that means that they...