Wedding vows are idiotic. The very fact that you are getting married should be more than enough evidence that you are so in favor of the person you are marrying that you are willing to financially risk ruining both yourself and her/him, and your potential children for that matter. The shit you say on the day of when…

I'm a pretty accepting person, but I have to say: if I ever found out anyone I knew had engaged in any sexual act involving the use of shit I would, first, punch them in the face and two, wash my hands and never speak to them again. I mean, WTF, people?

Weddings aren't a house. There are not really rising costs, only rising expectations. Weddings only cost what you decide to pay to have them.

It would be pretty hilarious to see a guy in Starbucks whip out the tit and let son/daughter have a snack. It would totally befuddle those people who freak out over public feeding time.

Well..."writing." Or, rather, having written for her. By a writer, that is.

I don't know about extreme, but the consistent message in all of this seems to be that these various parents are teaching their kids to be highly suspect of people having similar issues in life and to assume that it reasonable and safe to make huge fucking lifestyle decisions for others based entirely on your own…

Since we're trading in hyperbole and anecdotal evidence, this woman got more than the allotted/needed air time this past spring:

I always find it strange that a person who is trying to have a really special, singular experience in life - such as having a kid or a wedding - can still somehow choose to participate in a trend. I mean, on the one hand, how do you avoid it? But, also, why would you choose it?

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If the amazing amount of people (women included!!) getting ridiculous-ass tattoos over the past decade are any indication, then life-changing, more or less permanent activities as fads are certainly a thing and there are definitely people with less than noble purposes willing to get one of those other, cooler looking…

PAROOF!!!!!

I didn't take it as being rude, so no worries. If you stay out of the core you can live on less, but people don't usually move here to live in the suburbs.

No, I doubt you would be. I'm using the housing price as a benchmark value to show you how goddam expensive it is here. Rents regularly go for the same amount someone would pay for their mortgage payments. Food is also crazy expensive. Just be prepared, that's all. It's goddam hard to afford to live around here,…

Toronto is great. I love it here. I hope you are rich, however. The average house costs $750,000 though. So, start there and expand that out to the cost of everything else.

James, when Mr. Miyagi got Daniel-san to wax on and wax off, there was a reason it looked really easy but actually wasn't. Poetry is even harder.

Yes, they all just got back from Anthropologie.

Once we rifle through all the sexist issues here, the most basic question in all of this is: Why do people feel that they need to have so goddam much? No parent can be wildly career-successful and good at parenting young children. Unless your job requires you to do one or two hours of work while your child is asleep.…

Ironically, the Gandhi connection here is meaningful, since he was wildly racist and published a newspaper advocating against blacks in South Africa while he lived there. Mind you, it was turn-of-the-century South Africa, but it has always fascinated me that Gandhi was both an advocate for the rights of those less…

A bit context for non-Ontarians: Ottawa is the physically existent equivalent of a stick up your butt. It is a city of teachers and boy scouts being minded by hall monitors and lawyers while people with perfect teeth and straight-A report cards write everything down. Breastfeeding probably seems risque there, along…

Facebook = The first 20 minutes of Kubrick's 2001.