My local mall has a group of Girl Scouts and 2 dads with a kiosk to sell cookies. I absentmindedly tried to hand my money to the adult on duty (a dad) and he said “just a moment please. Sienna, honey, you have a customer!” and this adorable and very professional wee child came over and slowly-but-surely added up my…

Meh, illegal in most of the country is irrelevant, and besides, smart kids should be aware of adult activities. Which is worse — normalizing an adult activity or exoticizing it? Go ask any group of teenagers which adult activities are cool and they’ll answer that for you.

If the new logo is a militarized version of the old one which features a passenger plane. It’s mimetic of the ongoing militarization of the game and the troubling alignment of sporting activity with military strength, team pride with national identity, and strong male bodies as a viable resource.

“But parents today have no idea what polio was like, so it’s hard to convince somebody that lives are at risk if they don’t vaccinate.”