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so, what is the problem with insanity? Helps one deal with reality.
I have one nephew(about 15 years old) who lives in non-sidewalk suburb who envys his cousin who lives in neighborhood with sidewalks.
I think it was NYTimes magazine couple months ago where I read essay from woman who upset her neighbors cause she allowed her kids to walk down the block aways to visit friends. THe mother of kids the girl visited drove the daughter back later – saying ‘you just never know’.
” Sculpting human heads out of my kids’ play-doh.”
Lemme guess…and then you smush them with the PlaySkool work bench hammer?
DIBS, the American dream requires hard work to result in a meaningfully better outcome than the alternative. I blame the erosion of the American dream much more on easy credit than on government entitlement programs.
By daveinbedstuy on April 7, 2010 4:13 PM
Lechacal, you are witness to the American Dream.
100000% agreee. Sad but true, that’s what we immigrants pretty much thrive for when hearing about America back in the old country.
Ouch blowfish, very sorry to hear that. Never fun.
You know what I have been doing on thie trip to try to keep my brain from choking off its own blood supply to end its misery? Sculpting human heads out of my kids’ play-doh.
“Suburbia is insanity … Here you have millions of people who should really just be living in substandard company housing somewhere and they all have big screen TVs and mcmansions.”
You’re just noticing this now? [Raised eyebrow]
Lechacal, you are witness to the American Dream.
fuuddggge i owe the tax man. tbd how much, but its not looking good, no sir. at least 4 digits.