Everything Bad Is Good for You

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Isn't this just a parent-targeted rip-off of Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_Bad_Is_Good_for_You

…ntal activity stimulates brain," please? Then we can all cite that once and for all. Whatever there is to say on this topic that's actually interesting has been said in "Everything Bad Is Good for You," a book I highly recommend.

I am just about through with Johnson's "Why Everything Bad Is Good for You" and I would like to get in on a discussion of the book. I am a senior citizen and fascinated with the arguments he proposes, mainly because I can verify the truth in them from observing the interests and "smarts" of my grandchildren and great grandchilden. I plan to read the book a second time to absorb it better. Also, I plan to watch the "Sopranos" and see how his comments apply therein.

Outside.in's Steve Johnson wrote a fairly buzzed-about book about popular culture ("Why Everything Bad is Good for You"). He sounds like a bright guy with a handle on American society and the populous in general. I think he'll do great things with the new company.