Fashion tip.

Homemaking tip.

Y'know, modern American is such bit— Um, modern America is such a blessed thing....

It get this, ALL of it, raise your hand.

Typo City here! All down the flusher...

Finns.

Via today's Maggie's Farm, here's some great fun: how American parenting habits are viewed by people from other countries. The link is to a Free Range Kids post, which links to a longer article that's very much worth your time.

We're pussifying our children in the name of safety, Old RPM Daddy. Government sponsored, of course.

Crid; I second that motion to adopt the Finnish idiom.

Another take on the Washington Redskins naming controversy, sort of. This one is from Arizona, among the Navajo.

By the way Flynne, it was a bad weekend to be a Bears fan (not that I am). At 37, your Tom Brady is still capable of inflicting great pain.

NSFW.

Daddy, I hear you, but...

Since approximately 20 minutes after ratification, Americans have been terrorizing each other through literature with headlines like

   Special to the
   New York Times

               June 7, 1957

   Palsied, Illiterate Beggar
   in Burundi Disapproves
   of Latest Caviar Shipping 
   Regulations from U.S. Dept.
   of Weights & Measures

   Protests Near Bujumbura 
   Consulate Expected

   By Edgar Caulfield
   (Tokyo)—

I think you put more thought into the Skenazy post than I did, Crid. I pretty much stopped at "Well, how about that?"

Regarding your Everything2 post, which I enjoyed reading, I remember a newly-arrived Iranian roommate at a college mixer saying, "You know that 'culture shock' you were talking about? I think it's happening now."