The Tim Allen sitcom is standard issue fare. He's trying to do sort of an Archie Bunker thing, except he needs a better "Meathead", but it's still okay to stream on a Saturday night when you don't have anything else to watch.

I've got a second grader and he's just now learning cursive. A couple of times as I've been helping him with his homework, I've sort of thrown up my hands at the way those arrows point. I'm not sure what they're trying to show, but we used them on the standalone letters and when it came time to write, I've told him…

This isn't really directed toward you, but rather the other who say they never got cursive. No offense to anyone and it's certainly understandable if you've gotten out of the habit, but it sounds like a lot of people are overthinking it.

As an example, here's a link to a slideshow from Rolling Stone's 2009 "Hot List". While everyone on it leans toward the attractive (including Mike Tyson), I don't understand why you're so willing to dismiss their accomplishments because the magazine used a different (and accepted) definition of "hot".

Why would they think that there's some kind of facility, not run by the courts and the jails, which would hold someone against their will. It sounds like "unlawful imprisonment" or "kidnapping" to me.

Apparently to the dozen or so bloggers who took offense, "hot" has only one meaning. Rolling Stone has to rename their annual issue; Billboard can't have a "Hot 100" and Forbes is apparently saying "Most Sexually-Arousing Vacation Spots" or "Food Fests I'd Like to Fuck", whenever they make a list.

God forbid, she should tweet.

Good work, well-researched and a thorough takedown that when combined with Jalopnik's Google ranking should help others avoid the scam.

One benefit to EA and Maxis which came from this fiasco, but wasn't mentioned: When looking for a game to buy my kids for their Spring Break, I saw Kotaku's coverage of SimCity 5 and based on a few people's snarky comments, I decided to buy them a copy of version four.

That's how these kinds of stories are reported. They also use the same video clips.

I think the LOL or whatever is misdirected. As others have pointed out, they are all reporting the same wire service story using the same video and suggested script. Most likely, the angle was suggested by someone from the event and/or their sponsors because it could help sell more games.

That's why they all had the same video, in addition to a script.

So, basically, where they could force an arbitrary and unplanned budget cut now, society could be paying for some people's lack of a "head start" for years?

I don't know if, for example, the overall OSHA budget for 2013 was more or less than 2012's — it may be more because they had to increase their presence in the oil-producing states or it may be less because of a budget cut — but let's say, the office in western Tennessee is completely unchanged.

We faced the same sort of dilemma. For the most part, I've always been self-employed and have primarily worked from home since the mid 90s, so I became the stay-at-home dad. When both of mine were old enough, we also worried a bit about their social skills and some about introducing them to something with more…

Some agencies may have seen an increase in their budget from fiscal year 2012, but I'm sure that's not true of all divisions. Also because the cuts have to be compressed into just the remaining months is why they actually come out as seeming deeper and has resulted in things like air traffic control towers temporarily…

I'm not asking this to be judgy, I'm just curious and it may a matter of semantics, but does your first paragraph indicate that you've bought a preschool package to homeschool your kids or do you develop your own curriculum? With my kids, we did activities and I had several books of fun, educational stuff, plus there…

I don't know who seeded the meme about the sequester being a decrease in the increase, but it's a cut. Federal agencies had been working with the idea that they had a certain amount of money in their budget for this year and now they've been told that their annual allocation has been cut by about 5%. These cuts can't…

I'll just add to the others jumping-on that Head Start is a preschool, early-kindergarten program. Though I'm sure there are parents who help their kids doing ABCs, 123s and maybe they'll read a bedtime story at night, it's not really something you can homeschool. The program give kids a head start.

OMG! What a great photo of Jewel's kid and he's wearing a terrific outfit too.