A latte a Day approaches $100 a month. $100 a month over the span of the last decade would amount to over $100,000.00 if invested properly. Maybe even more with the bubble (though maybe less!).

When I was born in the early 70s, we lived upstairs from my Grandparents. They watched my while my parents were working and/or in school (they did both back then).

When I was the age my parents were back then, I had moved out and had my own place and had to pay for it.

When I was little, I shared a room with my brothers.

Now it seems most so-called middle class kids have their own bedroom with a computer and/or a television in it.

How long have you had cell phone? Have you truly needed it? I know you've benefited from the convenience, but could you have lived your life without it? How much would you have saved?

How many cars in your family?

How long is your commute? Do you drive? How many days a week do you ride your bike? Do you walk ever? Bus? Did you choose to live in a giant house far away from these options? How has that worked out for you?

How much of your food do you cook for yourself? How many nights a week do you have meat?

How much of your food do you grow yourself? Any of it?

Now, I know there are structural changes that have occurred over the past half century, but it doesn't seem right to complain about how much you're struggling when you haven't done the basic leg work to save money.

People expect so much these days. For the last 10 years or so, as I have lived somewhat frugally, I have always stared in wonder at the affluence that surrounded me and wondered "where the hell does everyone get all this goddamn money from?"

Now I know. They get it from the ether, conjured into being with the stroke of the pen.

The sad part is the victims of the depression truly had nothing. They had neither home nor hearth. They starved.

Yet, here we are in our SUVs sipping lattes and complaining about how it's so damn hard.

How many of us have truly ever had to even lift so much as a finger? Have you chopped your wood to heat your home? To cook? Have you ever gone without heat? Without a hot shower? You probably couldn't even bear the thought.

The folks who were exploited miners or other laborers whose strikes were broken and who were ground into dust by our system were not educated like we are. We're whining about our student loan debt, but the fact that we have this debt proves we're educated enough to have made better choices. We're not mindless huddled masses who came here as uneducated laborers.

We're educated people who could have made better choices, regardless of the structural issues that are in play.

Yet here we are, unable to stop ourselves from this gluttony.

You're playing my song.

You know, you have choices to make in life, and they all have consequences.

Go sift through salon's archives for one of their atrocious holiday gift guides.

Give it a read and it will demonstrate this out of touch with reality mentality that so many of my fellow lefties share with respect to their consumption entitlement.

He gave up being seen playing golf.

In some indigenous cultures of the pacific northwest, one sign of insanity is killing your own dog for no reason.

I can only imagine that any etymological reference to the word uterus uttered by your paramour would be done so sardonically.

Look at the women in ancient Greek culture anyway, they're all a bit off kilter. Medea? Atalanta? Clytemnestra? Agave? Hello! Who other than maybe Persephone and Penelope were ever portrayed in a decent light?

As soon as there is a single other viable way to travel medium to long distances, people will stop flying.

It's a crappy experience filled with crappy people. Who would, ever voluntarily interact with any employee of any airline that they are not otherwise related to?

I know I wouldn't. Screw those people. The entire industry could collapse and I would be happy to see it. Decades of crap service and bad attitude sometimes catch up with you.

The grown woman with a vibrator/massage wand is a smart and sassy liberated modern woman.

The grown man with a pocket pussy is a pervert.

Is that a double standard? It couldn't be, because it came from the mouth of a so-called feminist.

What is objectification? The building of a simulacrum of a woman, or a pocket pussy? To me, the pocket pussy or the dildo is more of a reduction of a person to a literal sex object than a lifelike doll.

The revulsion many are experiencing might be due to the similarity of the woman doll to a human being and not it being an object.

Personally, I don't have any of these things.

She would still be thin because of all that coke...and not the kind from a 2 liter bottle.

The editorial says:

"I can't find a single recent instance of a candidate who ultimately became his party's nominee losing a primary by this kind of margin."

He is telling the truth here. He really can't find one. It's because he is an incompetent hack whose family largess has enabled an easy life of back slapping.

What is the worse pollution?

You're a little over the top here, I think...

-m