"Amy Alkon On Homo Barbarus"
There's a wonderful review of my book I See Rude People by Karen De Coster posted on her site and cross-posted on LewRockwell.com. An excerpt:

Occasionally, a book comes along that so extraordinary that it deserves a quickie book review even when I don't have time to do a book review. I just finished ready Amy Alkon's I See Rude People: one woman's battle to beat some manners into an impolite society. For those who are not familiar with her, Amy is a columnist, journalist, author, and blogger who is known around the Internet as the Advice Goddess. This book, from 2009, is an absolute joy to read - her razor wit and knack for insulting Homo Barbarus is reminiscent of a 21st century H.L. Mencken. She is the anti-Boobus.

Amy is Revengerella, and she defines the "new rudeness" as "people wildly indifferent to other people." She writes,"There's a meanness, a hostile self-centeredness, that's overtaken our society since around the turn of the millennium, and nobody's safe from all the pushing, shoving, and shouting." One of of my favorite Alkon moments is when the plucky author pummels "all the asshats yukking it up on their cells" and refers to cell phone rudeness as "the most prevalent form of modern mannerlessness." Another cornerstone topic of the book is one of my favorite incivilities to pick apart - the underparented child. One of her greatest hits from the book is this sublime quote:

In case this isn't apparent, this chapter isn't about bad children, it's about bad parents. The children, like cell phones in the hands of loud narcissists, are merely a medium through which self-involved so-called adults inflict themselves on the rest of us. Unfortunately, while you need a license to cut hair, you only need working ovaries to have a child.

She continues on about the age of adolescent parents:

A few decades later, the adult-child line is no longer blurred; it's snarled. We've got eight-year-old girls dressing like hookers while their mothers dress like eight-year-old girls. Last week, I stood in line behind a big white vinyl Hello Kitty purse - on the arm of a 40-something mother of two. Forty-something dads bicker with their kids over whose turn it is on the Nintendo, and sociologist Frank Furedi, who wrote on Spiked.com about trying to wean his two-year-old son off "Teletubbies," and realizing the futility of it after spotting a bunch of undergraduates glued to an episode of the show in a bar.

Karen De Coster is pretty cool. A bit about her:

I am a Certified Public Accountant and freelance writer who is devoted to the causes of liberty, individualism, and the free market. I embrace the right to keep and bear arms; recognize the superiority of the Articles of Confederation; subscribe to a motley assortment of minor conspiracy theories; and believe that government is evil, immoral, corrupt, and unnecessary in a free society. I am also an ardent lover and student of Austrian economics, the pro-market, anti-statist school of economics. Additionally, I proudly wear the title "Queen of Political Incorrectness", given to me by my friend Tom DiLorenzo.

I'm a theoretical Rothbardian because it was Murray Rothbard who wanted to systematically smash statism and fulfill the dream of liberty and prosperity for all of mankind. Other influential thinkers are Ludwig von Mises, the great Austrian praxeologist; Lysander Spooner, the 19th-century market anarchist; Albert Jay Nock, the anti-State libertarian; Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, the acclaimed conservative historian; Frederic Bastiat, the 19th-century economist; C.S. Lewis, the Christian philosopher; and the great figures of the "Old Right", including H.L. Mencken, Garet Garrett, Frank Chodorov, John T. Flynn, and Robert A. Taft. Also, I am drawn to the cultural conservatism of Edmund Burke and Russell Kirk.

To me, the most glorious prose master to ever pen a word is H.L. Mencken, the most prolific, brilliant, and politically incorrect commentator this world has ever known. I discovered Mencken during junior high school and I knew I was on to something big, even then. But it was many years before I came across folks with whom I could share my Mencken discovery. Mencken helped to set the stage for me in regards to my thirst for knowledge. As Mencken's creed states: "I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant."

And she lives in Michigan and rides a Harley Sportster 1200XL. Hope to have child-free drinks with her when I'm in Michigan. And by that, I mean, drinks without children stirred in -- or present.