Episode #08098

News coverage based on a single story in the L.A. Times reveals an epidemic of kids turning drunk, disorderly and disinfected. (03:36)

Tags:  health,  teens,  alcohol,  Los Angeles,  mongering,  drugs,  marijuana,  legalization,  parenting,  California,  mental health,  Good Morning America,  media,  print media,  Los Angeles Times,  doctors,  epidemics

Episode #08093

Old, gray-haired Barack Obama successfully panders to the youth vote, but Republicans emphasize the difference between class clown and class president. (04:41)

Tags:  advertising,  campaigns,  Barack Obama,  Mitt Romney,  Jimmy Fallon,  Fox News,  candidates,  voting,  gravitas,  TV,  college,  elections,  approval ratings,  songs,  Republicans,  Charles Krauthammer,  lookin' good,  Late Show with David Letterman,  Harry Truman,  media,  pundits,  Indecision 2012,  Indecision 2008,  aging,  hip hop,  animals

Episode #07055

Barack Obama releases his long-form birth certificate, but Donald Trump wants the president's Occidental records. (05:34)

Tags:  Barack Obama,  Donald Trump,  citizenship,  controversies,  school,  growing up,  kids,  pirates,  parents,  socialism,  ethnic,  discrimination

Episode #07014

Amy Chua points out where Western mothers have it all wrong in "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother." (03:22)

Tags:  America,  China,  Amy Chua,  parenting,  kids,  growing up,  books,  David Brooks,  teens,  photos,  Jimmy,  culture,  controversies

Episode #04148

Stephen locks up the coveted demos of invisible women and elastic dads in the Marvel Universe. (06:00)

Tags:  Tip/Wag,  religion,  Catholic,  environment,  baseball,  literary references,  elections,  Indecision 2008,  Indecision,  Comic-Con,  Pope Benedict XVI

Episode #04055

Bulls forget to be role models for veal, and bees, those little blossom sluts, take advantage of America's mortgage crisis. (6:52)

Tags:  ThreatDown,  bears,  lawsuits,  sports,  religion,  shortages,  interns,  animals,  shopping,  baseball,  kids,  housing,  food,  Christian,  bullfighting,  steroids

Episode #03027

Don't pity these stay-at-home dads -- they volunteered to have their balls stolen from them. (4:55)

Tags:  family,  America,  kids,  growing up

Episode #02143

With James Baker and Robert Gates moving into the Bush 43 ranks, it looks as though Bush 41 is trying to wrestle control from his son -- and Stephen doesn't approve. (2:21)

Tags:  The Word,  media,  George W. Bush,  George H.W. Bush,  James Baker,  Robert Gates,  Donald Rumsfeld,  Dick Cheney,  Tony Snow,  Congress,  Saddam Hussein,  Bill Clinton

Episode #02071

Author Steve Johnson talks about how kids today are recreating history in video games instead of stealing their dads' beer. (5:26)

Tags:  interviews,  Steve Johnson,  books,  video games,  kids,  nailed,  pop culture

Episode #02003

Stephen sounds the warning on dads who let their kids hang out in war zones, breeding robots, bears that aren't really hibernating and the Associated Press. (4:29)

Tags:  ThreatDown,  Iraq,  parents,  robots,  Mark Warner,  bears,  truthiness,  George W. Bush,  America