Alex, when you said "I get child support" that sounds like you get a check every month. When I read it again it became clear you meant you UNDERSTAND child support.

But I have never known anyone in my life that received alimony. Just child support is touchy enough.

I've been in all those situations: married, divorced, widowed, childless, single mom, nuclear family, and blended family. Being a single mom is way harder than you could ever imagine unless you've done it. But it still beats an unhappy marriage. For me, it also beats childlessness, but that varies for other people.

You heard wrong. It was Yakety Sax.

Thorfin, go check out the link. I only used this picture because there were several people in it.

Do you know why more babies are born on Tuesdays than any other day of the week? Because doctors don't want to miss their Wednesday golf game.

Because he has a mustache.

Makeup makes a woman look like she's out of school and has a job -at least if that's the only clue about her you have.

I wonder how "competent" they would be judged to be if the makeup was applied badly!

The before picture looks more friendly and trustworthy.

That's OK, edself. I've had measles, chicken pox, and rubella that my kids will never have. Luckily, I've never had mumps or tuberculosis. When I was a kid, people were mainly terrified of polio, and I even knew a few kids who had to live with the aftereffects. So we all took our sugar cubes at school.

Print magazines rarely cite sources, outside of academic journals.

And of course, none of this does anything about the problem of bullies.

The same story from another source has the maze owner saying that usually, people who are lost walk through the corn stalks toward the sounds of the busy nearby highway. That would seem to be common sense.

It looks cool, but I'm not shaving my head!

OK, the Kraken, being so intelligent, had already studied ancient fossilized bones from millions of years before their time. Sadly, they realized that they had no such bones themselves, and would be lost to the fossil record eventually. So they hatched a plan to leave bones behind anyway, appropriated from another species, rearranged in their own image, as a time capsule for future intelligent beings to discover in another few million years. Not only were they aware of their own mortality, but they were concerned with their legacy. Yet they went extinct. What lesson can we humans draw from this?

Oh my, I think I just wrote a science fiction premise.

I honestly think they are doing it to generate just this type of discussion, which is all free publicity.