Well... for one thing, I can't imagine it's actually going to be more work than raising kids with a elementary school education. A new kind of work, but not *more* work. I agree with the other comments that checking out local programs to see which of them can help with buddy groups, or newbie orientation. And if it…

I think Germany does this? A friend's kids went to a German-American expat school and they had to get to a specifically German store, but then it was on rails.

the wedding boards on pinterest are where young love goes to die a slow and awkwardly posed death.

Also funny, the frequency with which people pressuring you to do something you don't want to justify themselves by saying "It's your day!"

Only once (I think) did I crack and say no, on *my* day I am alone with my beloved; this is a day for our whole community (and we will have it in a slightly boring place that…

Divorced and remarried families, especially parents, make for even bigger weddings. SO MANY PEOPLE TO INVITE. Of course, that's the well-adjusted divorced and remarried families who are happy to be in the same building for a celebration.

There are grapes with delicious flavor, but I'm betting this is the `white grape juice' that's been bred to be a sugar solution that doesn't have to be labeled as such.

However, from Washington State, apples represent!

Why are internationally traded goods excluded??

Aside: There's nothing logically inconsistent with completely awful things being needed to perpetuate the species; the sphex wasp is real. Pregnancy is <a href="http://www.ulm.edu/~palmer/Mother…">a competiton for resources</a> between the mother and her current child, not a cooperative venture for the common good.…

There's also some leftover allusion to the argument that when marital rape is legal, no marital sex is completely consensual because the asymmetric threat counts as duress. But even that was an argument for outlawing rape in marriage, not for giving up on heterosex entirely.

I think there's less reason for toilet paper to be free in public and office toilets. I have *sphincters* for elimination; if I forgot to bring my TP or a quarter for the machine, well, I can hold it until I arrange something. (This is a terrible Randian reason for no free TP, but true at a distance from a trotting…

I had forgotten that about the 'soft! That was extremely civilized of them.

The other argument I've heard, from a USian who got out of China as a tiny child in bad Maoist times, is — I'm paraphrasing — that individual Chinese people were suffering under the warlords, under most of the dynasties, during the opium trade; it was wrong but not unusual. But she believed that only someone as…

Ukraine's famously a breadbasket; is the game to get Russians hungry and explain they had to conquer to feed their people?

Dictating to Siri?

"Give back" controls? When have authors ever had more freedom to self-publish than now? Classical Greece?

Depends on where they're dropping them — in the common walkway is uncool. (The messier party in my relationship always has the side of the bed farther from the door, so the floordrobe is only a tripping hazard for its owner.)

One of my grandfathers boasted that he once drove across the country and never touched the brakes — this would have been in the 1930s, and he didn't want to use more gas or replace the brake pads more often than he had to.

It makes me nutty that our (societal) response to this is to restrict the *children*, not the *cars*.

Excellently put.

Kite photography is quainter, and quiet.