You know, not all the boomers are 50 or 60. The generation is usually described as those persons born between 1945 and 1964. I was born in 1964. I haven't gone through menopause, am not thinking of retiring (and don't expect to be able to, either).

Is there any chance that we could use modifiers, say EARLY bo omers as opposed to later boomers? Because there is a big, big difference in our life experiences and coming expectations. Oh, and in our current ability to be getting some, too.

I don't think that the ordinance should be enforced against people like this-in fact, since they are living as a family unit, they may even fit the definition. But in defense of the rules, I have lived in small university town. In quiet residential neighborhoods, absent landlords will rent houses to 5, 6, even as many as 8 college students. The students often do not mow the lawn, shovel the sidewalk, keep decent hours, or allow owners the quiet enjoyment of their homes, throwing trash about during late night loud parties, etc. Neighbors have limited options, and calling the police for everything...well. How can a city with limited resources ensure that such households do not negatively impact all the neighbors?

At least with a limited definition of family (based on the zoning in the small city I lived in, with more unrelated persons per unit in higher density areas), there is a reason to serve a notice of eviction.

In the small city I lived in, persons living together, together with their children, would not have been targeted...that is, since the mother was related to her children, and the father to his, there would have been considered to be only two unrelated children.

There is a reason for the limits, and they do not affect related persons, so the snarky tone about immigrant families is really just trying to smear something.

Of course the city I lived in was small in population, not in mind, which sounds like it is the difference.

This letter makes me laugh, especially about the people outraged that the child's privacy has been breached. This is a great lesson for the kid! If you do something, anything, on a computer that others have access to, what you do is not private. Not at school. Not at home. Not at the library. Not on your own laptop, if it is stolen.

My 13 year old stepson was looking at porn. I told him to stop, because it loads a bunch of spyware onto the computer that I have to take the time to clean up. That was the conversation. Zach, you have been going to sites that aren't safe, including porn sites. These sites cause problems with the computer that we all use. It takes my time and effort to fix. Please don't do it anymore.

End of discussion.

"Joan talked about somebody who got threats, and not me! IT ALWAYS HAS TO BE ABOUT ME!"

And that's not whining?

Huh.

Shoot! I have a milkman. I have standard order, or I can change what I want online, or put it on a piece of paper in the milkbox (it's a picnic cooler). If I started to dislike THIS milkman, then I could go with the other company that delivers.

I think more people than you know have milkmen.

It's a red state.

"How can someone completely new to the sport have the necessary understanding of the associated dangers, unless they have been adequately instructed?"

Hello? You're up high on rocks. Clearly understandable, to anyone over the age of 9 months or so, is the fact that falling from there is undesirable.

I realize that there are technical aspects to climbing that us poor uninitiated don't understand, but everyone, EVERYONE, understands that falling is a Very Bad Thing, and procedures and devices to mitigate the possibility are important.

I believe the article said that about 25% of the disparity between male and female wages could be accounted for only by gender differences. So, when the gap is smallest, right after college, that is about 5%. When the gap is larger, 10 years after college, at 31%, (women earning 69 cents on the dollar for men) it is correspondingly larger. When the gap is larger in certain job classifications or career tracks, the percentage is larger yet.

So while 5% and "it practically doesn't exist" is easy to say, it is not completely true and is certainly not accurate. And it is still true and accurate that the actual disparity is 23%, but certainly some sort of explainer should be added when the number is quoted to say that a study has shown that "only" 25% of the disparity is due to gender differences, and not hours worked, education, field of study, etc.

James Beard's American Cookery, too. The cover fell off mine, I have to buy another, but there are some good recipes and actually some good reading in there. Even if most recipes seem to start with, take 6 tablespoons of butter...

What to say? I am at work and should be working, and I took a break and read this, and now I hope no one walks by my desk and sees me crying. The poignant descriptions of love for this child, this man, the sunshine breaking as he comes back, comes back to himself and to his mother and his loving family. I have a 19 year old myself, and he's fine. He finished his first year of college, he's happy and engaged with the world, and has a summer job, he's not autistic or schizophrenic or medicated, but the fear, the worry, it's so familiar. When the author discusses her son, I imagine my son, how that would be. My throat is still clogged with tears.

I'm so glad it has begun to work out for the author, the child, the family, so glad.