Married With Children's first year ratings weren't all that great until a "boycott this smutty show" got going. It was the best thing to ever happen to a show that, until then, not many people were watching.

I agree. Too much surveillance and you'll just drive the kid away.

Yeah, what's wrong with the parents that the kids refuse a phone call? Do. Not. Understand.

Or you could just raise kids who will return your calls when you ask them to?

My personal issue with being stuck behind a wall with trolls is that Jezebel is one of the very few blogs I even read the comments, let alone post on. I mean, every other major site (with Gawker being the other notable exception to me) is just such a completely shitty site for progressive feminists to post on, that I…

Ha, thanks. Yeah, back when I was posting the first go round - umm, 4 years ago now? - people complained back then that the whole thing was going downhill and commenting used to be better, etc.

For what it's worth, I always enjoy your posts, weirwoodtreehugger2.

Yeah, I was a starred commenter back in the day, then took a long hiatus to concentrate on school. When I decided I had time for Jezebel I came back, but my moniker Carrie Brooke was gone, and this depressing ghetto of "The Greys" was here. I saw quite a few people I remembered from before seemingly stuck there. I…

Yeah, gotta agree with you. I, too, was a starred commenter back in the day. Even had a COTD once - I actually called my husband at work to tell him. Then I took a hiatus to concentrate on college.

It hates children children, but it lovvvvves fetuses.

If there's one thing that'll help this un/under employed mother, it's an arrest record.

Holy crap! So jealous.

What a fucking shitty week I've had. Thank you for posting this. (I get the ironic reference in relation to the article, but gods I love Yes. So much.)

Just another abandoned building. Points for getting me to click and say so, though!

Some restaurants are in old buildings, with tiny bathrooms. Our local pizza place was built in the 1950s and the bathroom is the size of a postage stamp.

Plenty of restaurants are in tiny old spaces, with bathrooms that would never pass modern codes if designed and built today, but are grandfathered in. We went to our local pizza place last Friday and the bathroom is literally the size of a tiny closet.

I love Wet Nurse. http://wet-nurse.bandcamp.com/

It's always Florida. Except when it's not. Which, weirdly, is quite often.

I'm guessing these are the same kind of people who would abandon an elderly dog at a shelter, then reject her after she walked 30 miles on bad legs to find them.

Your last line actually made me laugh IRL.