Abigail Adams famously complained with the next generation of Americans being spoiled, entitled layabouts as far back as the early 1800s. (Exact date of the letter escapes me, offhand.)

Holy fucking shit. Your grandparents were teenagers during WWII? My dad fought in Italy in WWII.

Plus, the editorializing on the various Gawker sites is sometimes different for the same stories.

It's the same reason there are so many more cell phones than land lines in many parts of the world now. Infrastructure - in this case, waste water, underground pipes, engineering, god only knows what else - is so much more expensive than digital technology which, while costly to install, has a much faster rate of…

Haha! I love cats, so that is no problem at all. :)

Thank you for sharing! What a lovely family you have. :)

I must know more about your awesome cat! Do you just make sure furniture and other objects stay where placed in the home? How does he find his way around the house? Does he ever jump on things or does he stay on the floor?

The murderers were raised by Goths. - OMG! Satan worshipping devils!

Her?

Starred for the comment and the Lucille Bluth icon.

Larry David for Beast. I think that would be pretty, pretty, pretty great.

I always love the hypocrisy about "cleavage." Everything in our society is about having big/bigger breasts. Don't have 'em? Then get get push up bras or, better yet - have surgery!

Then the sign should read: Professional Clothing Required (Expected, Encouraged, etc.)

I had that problem for a while - had something to do with my local server thingy. Try it again when you are away from where ever you are now and have wifi somewhere else.

Acrocatics.

I agree. I reject the bizarre argument that anything a woman chooses to do is inherently feminist simply because: free will!

Perhaps the term you are looking for is "patriarchal bargain." When women make decisions that are good for them personally, but bad for women as a group.

I agree!

He's saying that having children is better than going on vacations, seeing the world, etc.

No, he means having children is better than going on holidays, having a house in the country, etc.