An Intimate Understanding of America's Teenagers: Shaking Hands with Aliens Book

Preface     vii
Introduction     ix
I'm, Like, All...     1
The Rebel Paradox     15
Mirror, Mirror     28
Lily Munster...or Whatever's Cool     45
The Anti-Midas Touch     53
Dumb Stuff     65
Athletes, Arrogance, and Angst     79
The Slime Who Hurt Our Kids     91
When Party Became a Verb     104
Snitchin' Ain't Bitchin'     115
Hard-Bodied, Soft-Headed, and Stone Dead     129
Sex, Oral Sex, and "Hey, Everybody's Doing It!"     137
Devouring Junk     153
They Bombed Hiroshima, Didn't They?     170
Good and Plenty     186
You Vil Go to Ha'vid!     197
You Mean, When You Die, You're Dead?     216
It's a Matter of Philosophy: Remedies Times 10     228
Can't! Won't! Not!     242
When All Is Said and Done     249
Notes     257
Bibliography     261
Index     263