YES! “This is for adults only” loses pretty fast to “drink too much and you’ll be stumbling around red faced like Uncle at last Thanksgiving”. Teens and tweens give a lot more attention to potential embarrassment than parental edicts.

If it doesn’t screw up the kids idea of alcohol, it’s sure going to mess up their idea of parenting and their parents in particular. But then, I’m pretty sure that “mommyjuice” is a sign that there is an adult failing at adulting. Not much different from “Mother’s Little Helper”, our best friend Valium.

In addition to offering a small amount of whatever alcoholic beverage the adults were enjoying, and my grandmother’s intensive need to put rum in desserts, my parents were pretty honest about what was happening with the, as you say, boozy members of the family. A little is okay, but a lot makes you sick — just like…

I think he’s just too juiced on Republican Talking Points to be able to adjust the message to different audiences. He’s not able to give a “this is how government works” speech without pushing the agenda. He probably calls his grandmother on her birthday and talks about suicide bombers.

Might be hard to reconcile vaporizing the whole planet with a magical guy who lives at the North Pole and grants wishes at Christmas.

In second and third grade I don’t think we covered anything scarier than “don’t play in traffic” and fire drills. We didn’t start WWII stuff until fourth grade, and that in a school named after a WWII poet. That was in Canada though, I know they go in heavier for the early indoctrination down here.

I’m happy that the plantiffs thought this through enough to stifle her attempts as Saintly Christian Martyrdom. The stained glass window of a woman in a denim skirt bravely handing over cash so that she can protect a pile of papers just isn’t going to hold up against the stabbings and burning and such.

With God, people are not moral either — as this story deftly proves.

It’s the great secret of life. Nobody really cares what you believe.

Why is Fox news not yet classified as a hate group?

Unless it’s medically necessary opiates. No pain relief or cough reduction for the masses in that case.

The Canada-is-full-of-terrorists thing comes up every few years, with a slightly different twist on the racism bit.

When I was wedding comparison shopping I told everyone I was having a family get together, sorta like an anniversary but not really. I think the ‘family get together’ worked like a signal that I was not a crazed Bridezilla ready to tear apart wedding vendors to get My Special Day. I’m sure there are crazed family…

Parent groups are probably awful, since humans are pretty awful in groups regardless. But a company head coming forward to say that the customers are the problem, the customers are demanding secret information, and we don’t need customers like that . . . really not a winning business strategy.

So if she’s against captial punishment she can refuse to file the death certificate under this reasoning. Imagine if someone religiously inclined was hired to collect census date — giant swaths of society would cease to exist.

If the war is about what is inside of women, why is there so much crap accumulated about how women look? Sexy, not sexy, make up, no makeup, designers, workouts meal plans skin care collar bone ankle knee side boob nipple ....

It’s easier to learn if you don’t start with the assumption you have to believe it.

I wonder if that kind of upbringing actually warps brain development. Free play is the beginning of learning to make choices and be responsible. If you never make meaningful choices because it’s all pre-selected how would you learn how to be mature? If your only choices for EVERYTHING is good or evil, how do you learn…

I’m not brave enough to yell. I mostly side-eye and glower. I’ve occasionally lapsed into muttering. I’m sure eventually I’ll snap and go after zoo patrons with one of those unswallowable curvy straws.

In the early years of Yellowstone they DID train the bears to be visible to humans by having an open trash dump with tours. At least until someone worked out that training bears to think of humans as food sources was a bad idea. I assume this visitor is a hold out from the Roosevelt era.