A lot of stations still at least switch over to infomercials after a certain time, and a few channels I know still have an archaic "this programming is from our sponsors, not from [this station]" bump.

Sorry, but I cannot possibly agree with you that the one parent of mine who did make time for me (on top of being the only parent with a stable career, and my only sober parent) was the selfish, lazy one. I don't see how anyone could call a parent selfish and lazy for taking a couple hours to talk with their kids…

Radar didn't exist in 1914!

Well, I still had Christmas mornings, and I never felt like I was missing out on anything. It wasn't about having money, or having more or less than anyone else. But from the age too old to believe in Santa it was about including me in the process, at least for me.

How is that awful? He let me name anything I want for my gifts so long as it stayed within a budget (and of course within the bounds of reason). I thought that was just awesome. It let me choose what I really wanted and cut out gifts I didn't care for, like clothes. Not that I didn't get such gifts as well - I had…

I wonder whatever happened to that time-honored tradition of giving kids an allowance to teach them how to prioritize their needs and wants?

I'd like to hear how you would distinguish "bad art" from "not art."

It's a little silly to count fixed costs (like buildings, machines, testing facilities) as all costs to develop one product. You could account for the costs of that signal-free room, for instance, across all of the wireless products that they will test in that room. Those key-torturing devices aren't going to test the…

Well, I was specifically thinking birthdays. Obviously if the custom on a different holiday is to exchange gifts, someone would feel left out if they received nothing if they should've.

Everyone gets a gift so no one feels left out?

I thought it was standard for the cake and food time to be the same as the presents time, so the kids have an excuse to sit around while the birthday kid tears wrapping paper apart. By the time all the presents are unwrapped most of the kids will have eaten the requisite one to two slices of cake and whatever "real…

Yeah, you try telling a kid on their birthday they can't open presents at their own birthday party. Especially when fellow kids want to talk about how cool their gift was and the other kids' parents are all asking why not as well. I guarantee you will ruin that birthday party faster than anything else.

Eh. In my house, the game that makes me think I've let down my family is called Thanksgiving dinner.

I'm still infuriated every time I see the infantilizing, insulting notion that us women are delicate wilting flowers who need to be protected from scary or bad things or else we could get hurt. That's not feminism, that's misogynism.

Always look at a shelter first unless you absolutely need a dog with a pedigree (perhaps for breeding purposes yourself, in which case you're either a horrible person for wanting to do this as an amateur, or you're an expert who should thoroughly know what they're doing and thus not the person this article is written…

If everyone stopped adopting from breeders, breeders would breed fewer dogs. Why do you think breeders would continue to supply as many dogs as they do now if the demand for them fell sharply?

THIS.

Our rescue shelter's application was so thorough, we likened it to adopting a baby. They asked a lot of questions, both practical (things like what vehicle(s) we would use to transport the dog - not an inconsiderable question for a 90lb+ Malamute, he does not fit in a back seat!) and personal (things like what we…

I disagree with getting rid of his papers, they're useful for things other than show and breeding.

This this this. There are lots of shelters that only take in select breeds. Case in point, I got my dog from a rescue shelter that only takes in Alaskan Malamutes. Mals are great dogs, but they're quite distinctive in temperament and often misunderstood (you'd be amazed how often I get asked, "aren't they just bigger…