Unctuous occupations and popular pursuits -- The pitiful ploy of the bad boy -- The deep creep -- You pray, they decay -- Treating crazies like daisies -- Addiction to accolades -- How Mike and Carol crushed the feral -- Doing the wrong thing -- Killer cool -- The cool's war on warmth -- How heathens become hip -- A magazine for murderers -- Sonnets for Tsarnaev -- Pure idiocy -- The deadly do-rights -- Nuking the nuclear family -- The guilty parties -- The war on warriors -- Bling before balls -- Southern discomfort -- The rebels of romance -- The carnal carnival -- Gunning for attention -- Homages to homicides -- The orientation express -- The rebel bootlicker -- The rise of the free radical -- Conclusion: axing the appetite for adulation.