Bringing Home the Bacon

Here's an idea.  Here are some more like it.

I have mixed feelings about this.

What would be best of all: a boyfriend who would make these.

Apparently online dating is changing society, perhaps for the worse.

There might be a such thing as taking things too far.

How about a post-post mortem on Kelo?

Responses:

5. I really don't understand how people are supposed to have an opinion on this.  We don't know for sure what happened, we don't have a respected arbiter (i.e. a criminal court) to make a determination of what happened, and there were investigations into it that went nowhere.  I know feminists get mad when people criticize alleged rape victims, and that's fair, but is the answer automatically assuming that the accused is guilty?  The author has a decent idea, but I'm not sure that it's the right move because don't (we never) have enough information to evaluate the celebrity as a human.

7. I thought that anti-ginger sentiments were all ironic and done in fun (like the way people make blonde jokes) before reading that article.  Wow.

8. There was an episode of South Park about this.  According to them, it took 22.6 years for AIDS to be funny.

9. My fear is that, with so many new restaurants and changes, people will start getting bored with Mike Isabella.  His restaurants seem like flavors of the month more than places that'll still be interesting in 10 years, and it's in part because he seems to have already moved on from them.

R2R:

1a. Yes, the school handled it poorly, but any parent who repeatedly sends his child to school with no lunch and no lunch money is being a negligent parent.  The same thing would happen if you went to Chipotle and didn't have any money - they would scowl at you and toss your burrito in the garbage.  I'm not saying that the school's reaction wasn't terrible, but public schools are notorious for reacting poorly to life's ups and downs (see, e.g., zero tolerance), and if I'm going to be dumb enough to leave my child's lunch fate up to them, then I should make triply sure that I've done everything I can to make sure nothing goes wrong.

1b. That said, I do think kids in public schools are often punished for their parents' shortcomings because it's often the only way to get some parents' attention - it's kinda like the kids are the deep-pocketed defendant.  When I lived with my dad, we were late to school all the time becuase he drove us and often had no interest in trying to get us there on time.  As a result, I sometimes got in trouble.  This is the main reason I want to send my kids to private school.  In a public school, the funding mechanism is indirect, so the administrators and teachers do not have the same incentives to respond appropriately, but in private schools, they stand to lose my tuition checks if they do their jobs poorly.  Our difference of opinion on this matter probably has a lot to do with the fact that you went to nice public schools and I went to terrible ones.

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