A Directory of Satire and Commentary on Contemporary Life

	FULL ARTICLES
	To Your Health? What's Good...What's Bad...Who Cares? *Stephen Phillips*
	Can the Art of Driving Be Recovered? Selected Vehicular Behaviors Nominated for Oblivion *Robert Winter*
	Sx Is Still the Subject We Can't Discuss Hanky-Panky is Fine, But Gender is Taboo Robert Winter*
	Mobile Lifestyle On Cellular Phones and The Human Condition *Stephen Phillips*
	Mallophobia A Whimsical Look at Shopping Malls and Mental Health *Robert Winter*
	SUVs for Beginners New Variants on the Concept of "Wretched Excess" *Stephen Phillips*
	Joints R Us On Medical Over-Specialization *John Marran*
	Who's to Blame? Thoughts on an Overly Litigious Society *Stephen Phillips*
	Is the Problem That We Compete? Not All Forms of Competition Are the Same *Robert Winter*
	Touchy, Touchy! PCSpeak and Other Impediments to Communication *Stephen Phillips*
	Crime and Prestige A Cautionary Tale *Robert Winter*
	Sweating to the Oldies 'Cuz Shaping Up is Hard to Do *Stephen Phillips*
	Important People At the Bottom On Appreciating Service Workers *John Marran*
	A "Consumer's" Open Letter To the News Media I'd Rather You Called Me "Wifflebrain" *Robert Winter*

	SELECTED SECTIONS
	Our mores are becoming more like those of aristocratic courtiers.
	Normally the threat of physical consequences tends to improve certain kinds of manners.
	Malls put people in a childlike, heedless state, by beckoning them to bliss out on the goods.
	The inability of culture to keep up with change is behind many contemporary problems.
	Media culture brings great uniformity to behavior, but without any socially-enabling coherence.
	Perceptions of contradictory gender interests have evolved into a major "fault line" in American politics.
	According to the prevailing iconography, it's column right for men, column left for women.
	We've accepted a view that today's corporate social order embodies male interests and values--when it's often profoundly testosterone-hostile.