Will this decade actually be known, descendant-wise, as "The Naughties?" Writes the New Yorker's Rebecca Mead, "As we near the end… we still don't have a good collective name for the first decade of the twenty-first century." But we do!

A look into the minds of teens - who are actually adults thinking like kids, but stay with me - is really, fascinatingly scary:

Rebecca Mead is a New Yorker writer who has been making the rounds shilling her new book, One Perfect Day on the "marriage industrial complex" (everything sounds better with "industrial complex" tacked onto it, doesn't it? Sorta makes you pine for the days when American politicians were allowed to critique the AMERICAN WAY …

The most surprising aspect of Sunday's NY Times Book Review wasn't the big thumbs up Michael Kinsley gave to Christopher Hitchens' latest assault on organized religion, but Times reporter Jodi Kantor's review of One Perfect Day: The Selling Of The American Wedding, Rebecca Mead's new book on nuptial excess. Kantor all …

Anyone who's read Das Kapital — or for that matter, Lucky magazine — knows that a market economy cannot flourish without the creation of new wants for things like platform sandals and penis-shaped bachelorette party balloons. This, of course, is the same economic reasoning behind the the modern American wedding biz,…