Coming from a town where rain is so rare that it is something to celebrate about I would find living in Seattle to be the opposite of depressing. I'd feel great about it!

Because even if you have a card you can still be fired/not hired for failing a drug test :(

Man... I have to pick between the culture and climate of Seattle and the nature and elevation of Denver... That's tough! Time to Legalize it, California. I want weed in San Diego.

Nice! Back then I didn't have gym time either. But I took stretching very seriously. I did a routine maybe 5 times a day, mostly before a flight would come down.

I'm so jealous of everyone in Colorado right now. Hopefully the commercial and social success of this law spreads to California in the coming years.

The best workout I ever had was working as ground support at an international airport. All that running around, chucking 50 pound bags, carrying loads on your shoulders allowed me to lose weight regularly with a little big of eating restriction or maintain just fine with a lax diet.

Dude. One of his kids looks like Ellen Paige. How awesome is that?

Oh, she's definitely smart. She's a history nerd and left college because she was approached by a talent agent who found her writing songs like the ones on her first album for fun. She's been asked why she puts out the trashy, sex driven image of herself if she's coming from the place that she does and she just says…

EXACTLY

Ke$ha is my JAM and my sexual empowerment Yoda.

Ke$ha is my JAM and my sexual empowerment Yoda.

I love it. And at this point it's just a cultural thing to sing it. Like Happy Birthday or Journey. There's no real reason to stop at this point and it is a harmless tradition that makes people feel good.

More power to her, but I'll be singing it even whilst locked in extended eye contact with her scowling gaze.

Exactly. Thank you.

I have one teenager on my FB only because I'm friends with his mom and she thinks of me as a role model for him. But lucky me he's a rather cool art dork so I just have to list him out of my status updates about 21+ behavior at the cost of seeing some 14 year old's Homestuck cosplay pictures and drawings.

Good kid.

Yeah no one in my family has really pushed me like that. My little bro and my cousin are both on there because reasons. The others, I guess if they friend me, I will accept. But they go into the "family" list where I default them as not being able to see my status updates.

Well there is one near San Diego near the desert I know that works. They all have normal jobs that they drive into town for or tele-commute for. They enjoy shared childcare and meals that they take shifts making. They don't seem cultish in any way other than the application process to move to their special…

This article should be retitled "Teens Don't Understand That You Don't Have To Accept Every Friend Request" or "Teens Don't Know How To Use Facebook Properly"

So it is basically a fancily decorated alternative to flipping a coin or rolling dice.

I really feel like commune life and takes-a-village family styles can and have totally worked and that it is possible that they are the more natural/healthy family structure. But so much of their exposure only happens where there is a juicy story about betrayal, cult worship, and abuse attached to it. It'd be like if…