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Ho couture.

The art of persuasion.

Doncha wish your pre-schooler wuz hot like me?

“It was revealing in such a way that it would not be appropriate for a prom.”

All around the stripper pole.

This is nuts (via NYPost):
Staffers at fashion emporiums all over the city are brimming with anecdotes of teenager spending gone wild.
“We definitely have girls coming in here and trying dresses on for prom,” said a saleswoman at Dolce & Gabbana, where frocks regularly fetch $3,000.
One seller at Barneys said she recently peddled a $2,700 […]

My new column on a just-published children’s book called “Rainbow Party” is up. USA Today’s coverage of the book–aimed at 14-year-olds–is here.
So, what’s a rainbow party? Here’s the column intro:
Here’s a rich irony: I’m writing today about a new children’s book, but I can’t describe the plot in a family newspaper without warning you first […]

One of the most buzzed-about stories on the web yesterday was the N.Y. Post’s feature on super-skimpy prom dresses. My son’s onesies use more fabric than some of these designs.
It’s often mortifying being a mom of a young daughter these days. Can the Girls Gone Wild culture get any wilder? Some jaded folks will dismiss […]

In the San Francisco Chronicle today:
Students at a Palo Alto middle school learned more than school officials ever expected when a recent “career day” speaker extolled the merits of stripping and expounded on the financial benefits of a larger bust.
When two intrepid parents filed formal complaints, the school’s principal, Joseph Di Salvo, huffed that “the […]

If you have a 4- to 8-year-old girl, take note. They’ve “Bratz”-ified those little Trolls dolls. From the New York Times:
In a nondescript office building near the Ventura Freeway here, and in far-flung studios in Luxembourg and China, as many as a thousand animators, editors, sound engineers and the like are hard at work on […]

A plan to teach British youngsters the art of pole dancing has been canceled after an outcry from child welfare groups. The FReepers are all over the story. (Unfortunately, Buckhead has not yet weighed in.)
Update: Reader Greg Lawrence forwarded me a link that contained this cartoon. The artwork was done by “Mrs. R,” creator/webmaster of […]

The National Debate links to my Clare Booth Luce Institute speech, which aired on C-SPAN2 yeserday. (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
I’m appending the full speech below.