When everyone here was younger, did any of you here anything such as the following: "The ______ Tribe of _______ didn't have words for my , mine , his , her , hers , your , yours , their , theirs . They shared everything so the proper words were our or ours . For some reason while I was watching TV earlier this evening, the thought of somone in my youth reciting that statement entered my mind. Here's a problem that I just realized with that saying. Of course people can sa...

I spent part of this past weekend visiting an old college friend who just took a job in Chicago. He found an apartment on the far North Side of the city, in Rogers Park. It is one of Chicago's more diverse neighborhoods. It is also overly tolerant, tolerant of any social aberration that should stroll on in. Lucky for him he's single and childless, because it's a shitty place to raise a family. My friend and I walked to a corner store to pick up some beer and on the way in we saw two yo...