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Messy Lives Are Actually Not That Alluring, Katie Roiphe

Lock up your daughters: Kate Roiphe is waxing nostalgic again. In her latest paean to the Days of Wine and Date Rape, a piece in Sunday's New York Times entitled "The Allure of Messy Lives," Roiphe wonders if the popularity of the AMC series "Mad Men" is a sign that we all secretly miss the "fun" of swapping spouses, harassing employees, and getting blackout drunk at the office. In her usual "I'm just saying" style, Ms. Roiphe allows that "it's hard" to defend alcoholism and infidelity, (and "harder still" to defend the far greater sin of smoking,) but, in the name of eulogizing the vital "intensity" so many old, rich, white men once got out of abusing their wives, families, livers and lungs, she apparently felt compelled to do so. READ MORE