Other way around — when Amazon doesn't trigger taxability by having an affiliate count as a physical presence, Amazon can have affiliates in all states, not just the ones they already have a physical presence in.

Both, preferably, they're distinct problems. We need to help kids develop independence as well as take care of them in all the ways they aren't independent.

If the state or nation can afford this much CPS, we could %#@! well afford more park and playground monitors so our kids can go outdoors without causing All the Panic.

Personally, I think the park would be safer for the kids with more kids there. Even if that isn't so, we don't need to forbid or punish sending kids to the park unless too many parents do it without a rule against it. That isn't so, by your description, so there's no advantage gained by adding a rule (and clear harm…

You seemed to be implying that it was the 12-year-olds whose freedom should be curtailed, since it depended on the work of other grownups. If that wasn't what you meant, fault is irrelevant.

Admiring isn't the same as objectifying; we can admire each others' physical beauty without forgetting that (a) that's the merest shell of their complex selves and (b) how they make us feel isn't their fault.

Heck, I'm happily married and this description is making me curious.

Also:

I have, but I was only introduced to `red, green, or Christmas?', not to chili in the frito bag. New Mexico contains multitudes. At altitudes.

"How dreadful to be poor; never to eat good food, or live among beautiful things, or say anything witty."

Yeah, I noticed that as an oldster who went back to school; lots of quite intelligent young adults who had basically never been responsible for themselves. So they were learning in the middle of drinking, and driving, and moving cross country, and studying differential equations. Ramping up more gradually worked…

We're a decade into welfare reform, and we don't subsidize daycare, and it's a terrible, terrible labor market. What did we *think* was going to happen?

That is tough on you, but the creepy grown men are really, really not the 12 year olds' fault. Alternative is... either be rich enough to have a bodyguard, or stay at home all your life? Not better.

You're a grownup with self-control, also sneakiness. Babies aren't. Also, breastfeeding is having a meal, which is a normal public activity.

You've also completely ignored the need for bottle-feeders to have access to a fridge and then a heater — not available in most restaurants or any subway.

For a while, SEIU was the only umbrella-union the US had that was growing, I think — they did a solid job unionizing a lot of Las Vegas. Good tacticians working in, as you say, very difficult circumstances.

That was about how my little lefty college did it in the 1980s. (The hanging out, not the formal dropoff.)

NOW BREAKING: Millenials don't know how to use a light switch. "Is there an app?" one asks.

Class and study is the natural state of a student. Bars are the distraction.

I would suggest that no one in the history of ever has given 100% of themselves to any conversation.

The Nightwitches are coming for you.