But not that scrambled-egg taco the other day...surely! That thing looked disgusting (and I will eat anything)

Here's a series on Youtube that was on The Learning Channel years ago.

No, I think it was what passed for a theocracy at the time. They had a God-King, Jayavarman II. It so happened that women had a prominent place in both their religion and their society.

I said "Abrahamic" religions.

You could try telling him about Augustus Caesar's crackdown on bachelors, banishment of Ovid for writing a pickup-artist book, and banishment of his own daughter for holding orgies. This was before the Roman Empire ever heard of Abrahamic Religions. Augustus felt that strong families would grow up strong militaries…

How about the Khmer: http://www.uqhistory.net/life

I think the couple pictured above is in their late 60's or 70's. Of course, that isn't 90.

HA-HA! Thanks! Wish I could find one of Bette Davis in All About Eve going "Hallelujah!"

Listen to Act 1 of this This American Life for the story of a couple like that.

Well, just don't google "slampig." From what I understand, a "slampig" is an ugly "slampiece" that you use to take out your aggressions on. And, of course, never want to be seen with.

I thought it must be a parody, as well.

Want more good feels? I met the right guy at 48. I'm 56 and we just got engaged. First time for both of us. Suck it, Newsweek.

Someone posted on Gawker the other day—forgot which story—that his wife is a hair stylist and makes around 100K. I knew a woman X-ray tech in the Deep South whose husband started having an affair and before he could say "we didn't mean this to happen," she was out of there, had a divorce and a job lined up in another…

Technical jobs that people think of as working class? I'm not sure what you have in mind if it isn't X-ray Tech. If you mean manufacturing, here's another thing that's happened in manufacturing, and it's no one's fault (except employers—who are the upper middle class—not caring about what will happen to displaced…

"Good solid working-class jobs seem pretty stable?" If you mean nurse, X-ray Tech, Sonogram Technician, OK. If you mean construction, manufacturing, security guard, or retail, where do you live and on what planet?

Same here. I knew I could not go back home. It was "Never darken our door again" at 17 (would have been 18 but I went to college a year early.) There was no question, there would be not one red cent at any time. Thankfully, there were factory jobs and cheap apartments to be had.

I think something *was* in the air, and that something was the giant sucking sound of the bottom falling out of the middle class. Barbara Ehrenreich wrote "Fear of Falling" in the 80's about the increasing bottomless abyss if you fell out of the upper middle class. I think upper-middle-class parents had a sense that…

The cartwheel hat! Never heard of it! So that's what drove my great-great-uncle to drink. My great-great-aunt bankrupted him with all her frivolous hat-buying. Must have been the cartwheels.

It truly is scary. This toddler was so small, she wouldn't have made a sound if she had slipped in. The five-year-old was yelling her head off, but the adults had tuned out the kids' pool babble.

Joining this discussion late—they totally left one out. There was an F-5 in Maryland in 2002.