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I don’t have time for a real Fathers Day post, so this will have to do for now.

I saw this interesting article this morning about the Catcher in the Rye.  The gist of the article is that kids these days don’t admire the main character Holden Caulfield.  They see him as a lazy slacker, and in the words quoted by the article, ““weird,” “whiny” and “immature.””  One teacher sums it up well: