Althouse

---

• "Ukraine and Russia say they have agreed to temporary local cease-fires to create 'humanitarian corridors' so civilians can be evacuated and food and medicine can be delivered...."
• "Their lives were dotted with the minor luxuries of the progressive and affluent. They’re the kind of people who know..."
• "So far, the sprawl of haute-suburban restaurants is limited to Manhattan and Brooklyn, and there is some nuance within the genre. They can take the shape of a 'classic American tavern'..."
• "A lot of other places around the world, they just fold the minute there’s any type of adversity... I mean can you imagine if he [Vladimir Putin] went into France? Would they do anything to put up a fight? Probably not."
• "Ukraine has invited Russian women to come to Kyiv and collect their sons, many of whom appear to be inexperienced and frightened teenage conscripts."
• "When Beatrice Wood first met Marcel Duchamp at Edgard Varèse’s bedside, a fly flew into her mouth. Unsure of the proper etiquette in this kind of situation, she swallowed it."
• "The first witness in the trial, Shauni Kerkhoff, a former Capitol Police officer... told the jury that after he moved toward her up the staircase, disobeying her commands, she used a Tippmann PepperBall Launcher to fire 40 to 50 projectiles."
• At the Sunrise Café...
• "What the fuck does this woman—she’s a brilliant director by the way, I love her work, previous work—but what the fuck does this woman from down there, New Zealand, know about the American west?"
• "Absent from President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech tonight was almost any mention of the criminal justice reforms that Biden had promised on the campaign trail...."
• "This is beyond bizarre. Is some woman about to falsely accuse him of something?"/"You have an irrational hate of women and I'm sorry your [sic] so lonely."
• "What makes this memoir so absorbing is that it traces China’s tumultuous recent history through the eyes of its most renowned twentieth-century poet, Ai Qing, and his son, Ai Weiwei, now equally renowned in the global art world."
• "I got up to date a year ago, and that's as far as I'm getting — that's your idea? You might as well be a traditionalist."
• Men cannot flee Ukraine. They are required to stay and help defend. But what about trans women?
• "There were no supplies, and banks didn’t work. I did not realize it would happen this fast. This is Europe. But it is like Kabul all over again."
• "Putin distrusts the West. He is sincerely flummoxed by talk about 'Western values.'... His entourage is afraid to utter a word."
• At the Sunrise Café...
• It's SOTU night.
• Sunrise — 6:27.
• "A thrill, almost like a fad. When you don’t have activities in their communities, everything’s shut down, young people are going to find a way to entertain themselves. It’s recreation, that’s what it is."
• "There’s been a shift in the consciousness of people 70 and over... They’re like, ‘Oh my God, nobody wants my stuff. I don’t even want my stuff.'"
• "Zukovskis’s faith, known as Dievturiba, was pieced together from ancient rituals, songs and symbols and is now seeking official recognition from [Latvia]."
• "I biked to the airport. Here’s what it was like/For an hour and a $3.85 bike-share, I assuaged a little climate guilt before a recent flight out of D.C."
• "In the name of a level playing field, this is evangelicals finding their way back into the business of converting Native Peoples to the faith of their bronze age deity."
• "'I’ll never have to work again,' Sivert remembers thinking to himself. He quickly started fantasizing about one day using the funds to purchase a car."

"Ukraine and Russia say they have agreed to temporary local cease-fires to create 'humanitarian corridors' so civilians can be evacuated and food and medicine can be delivered...." Posted: 03 Mar 2022 11:49 AM PST "The development follows a second round of talks on Thursday afternoon, as local leaders warned about significant impacts to Ukrainian cities and as a mass exodus continues." WaPo reports.

"Their lives were dotted with the minor luxuries of the progressive and affluent. They’re the kind of people who know..." Posted: 03 Mar 2022 09:19 AM PST "... the local lady who makes her own Thai barbecue sauce; they notice when Rachel Maddow changes her shade of lip gloss; Bloom once had a second refrigerator devoted solely to condiments. One sign Brian was changing: his taste started to falter. This was funny until it wasn't. He began to buy Bloom jewelry, she writes, 'so far from my taste that, if he were a different man, I'd think he was keeping a Seventies-boho, broke-ass mistress in Westville and gave me the enameled copper earrings and bangle he bought for her, by mistake.'" From "'In Love,' a Novelist's Powerful Memoir About a Happy Marriage and an Assisted Suicide In her new book, Amy Bloom writes about loving her husband and helping him to end his life after a diagnosis of Alzheimer's" by Dwight Garner, in his NYT review of "In Love/A Memoir of Love and Loss" by Amy Bloom.

"So far, the sprawl of haute-suburban restaurants is limited to Manhattan and Brooklyn, and there is some nuance within the genre. They can take the shape of a 'classic American tavern'..." Posted: 03 Mar 2022 08:18 AM PST "... a 'classic neighborhood tavern'... or perhaps a 'classic Midwestern supper club'... sold on the premise that it seems like the kind of no-frills local joints that once dotted the highway exits of Wisconsin.... I invited my friend from Madison to join me at Emmett's on Grove.... When I asked if the restaurant resembled something from the Badger State in any way, my friend struggled to perceive any similarities, aside from the booths and the overall roominess. Nothing about the décor screamed 'Midwest' to me, but the ability to order a side of ranch with our pizza certainly nodded to the region's culinary sensibilities. (This is not a criticism.) Our servers were also extremely polite, another midwestern trait, but that could have been our luck. We stayed true to the nostalgic vibe and split a simple pepperoni pizza, plus some arugula salad and — why not? — a baked potato because my friend's mom eats one every day, and it felt like an authentic thing to do." From "Haute Suburbia/Why do New York City's hottest restaurants feel like they've been airlifted in from the Midwest?" (NY Magazine). The headline and the text don't match up too well unless you stress "feel like" and take note of who's doing the feeling. But that's what restaurants do, create an ambience, and they're working with whatever's in the mind of customers who probably lack experience with the place the restaurant is purporting to evoke.  The writer of the article (Tammie Teclemariam) orders pepperoni pizza and deems it "true" in some sense having to do with her own feeling of nostalgia, which seems attached to absolutely nothing except perhaps her own past experience with pizza-eating. Ironically, pizza is the most iconic New York City food. Then she adds a potato and deems it "authentic," but I've never heard of anyone eating potato with pizza.

"A lot of other places around the world, they just fold the minute there’s any type of adversity... I mean can you imagine if he [Vladimir Putin] went into France? Would they do anything to put up a fight? Probably not." Posted: 03 Mar 2022 06:55 AM PST Said Ron DeSantis, quoted in "Ron DeSantis suggests France would 'fold' if it was invaded by Russia/The 2024 presidential nominee contender also angrily chastised students on stage with him for wearing masks as 'Covid theatre'" (The Guardian). I'm setting aside my notion that DeSantis could be the more palatable, elegant version of Trump.

"Ukraine has invited Russian women to come to Kyiv and collect their sons, many of whom appear to be inexperienced and frightened teenage conscripts." Posted: 03 Mar 2022 05:32 AM PST  The London Times reports.  In a field surrounded by the people he had been sent to fight, a young Russian prisoner of war hungrily gulped down the tea and bread they offered him. A Ukrainian woman calmed him, telling the soldier not to worry. Using her phone, she made a video call to his mother. As soon as his mother appeared on the screen, he burst into tears. "Everything is OK," his female captor said, while others stroked his back. "Natasha, God be with you. We will call you later. He is alive and healthy." The video is widely circulating. Here's one place to see it.

"When Beatrice Wood first met Marcel Duchamp at Edgard Varèse’s bedside, a fly flew into her mouth. Unsure of the proper etiquette in this kind of situation, she swallowed it." Posted: 03 Mar 2022 04:04 AM PST "A man behind her, whose presence she had been unaware of, laughed. She turned and saw a 'delicate, chiseled face and penetrating blue eyes.' It was fate: 'At that moment,' she later wrote, 'we were lovers.'"  So reads the screwy first paragraph of "Reimagining Art, One Threesome at a Time" by Lauren Elkin (reviewing "Spellbound by Marcel Duchamp, Love, and Art" by Ruth Brandon)(NYT). I say screwy because the man with the chiseled face was Marcel Duchamp, so, contrary to impression given by the phrase that precedes "a fly flew into her mouth," Wood only met Duchamp after she'd swallowed the fly, and because, if Duchamp was "behind her," what was he laughing about? He doesn't seem to have been in any position to see the Varèse-honoring fly-swallowing. There's also this: "It is questionable whether we really need the pages and pages devoted to ferreting out whether or not Wood actually had penetrative sex with her various lovers, or stray anecdotes like the one in which Roché asks Wood to describe her husband's penis (referring hilariously, in his diary, to his own as 'God')." Well, we don't really need any of this, but as unnecessary things go, why the hell not?

"The first witness in the trial, Shauni Kerkhoff, a former Capitol Police officer... told the jury that after he moved toward her up the staircase, disobeying her commands, she used a Tippmann PepperBall Launcher to fire 40 to 50 projectiles." Posted: 03 Mar 2022 03:49 AM PST "That did little to slow him down, she recalled. Mr. Reffitt was also undeterred by larger projectiles fired by her partner and by pepper spray used by a third officer. At that point, Ms. Kerkhoff made a panicked call for help on her radio...." From "Prosecutors Open Arguments Against Defendant in First Jan. 6 Trial Guy Reffitt recorded himself as he entered the Capitol with zip ties and a pistol. 'We're taking the Capitol before the day is over, ripping them out by their hair,' he said" (NYT). Can anyone explain to me why 40 to 50 PepperBalls and larger projectiles and pepper spray would not stop a man? The ineffectiveness of this non-lethal technology would seem to strengthen the argument in favor of lethal technology. Elsewhere in the Capitol that day, lethal technology was used against Ashli Babbitt.

At the Sunrise Café... Posted: 02 Mar 2022 04:50 PM PST   ... you can talk about whatever you want.

"What the fuck does this woman—she’s a brilliant director by the way, I love her work, previous work—but what the fuck does this woman from down there, New Zealand, know about the American west?" Posted: 02 Mar 2022 06:55 AM PST "And why in the fuck does she shoot this movie in New Zealand and call it Montana and say, 'This is the way it was.' That fucking rubbed me the wrong way, pal. And the myth is that they were, you know, these macho men out there with the cattle.... I just come from fucking Texas where I was hanging out with families.... Not men, but families—big, long, extended, multiple-generation families that made their living, and their lives were all about being cowboys. And, boy, when I fucking saw [Power of the Dog] , I thought, 'What the fuck? Where are we in this world today?'... I mean, Cumberbatch never got out of his fucking chaps!" Said Sam Elliott, on Marc Maron's podcast, quoted in "Sam Elliott Proclaims 'Power of the Dog' a 'Piece of Sh-t'/The veteran actor is not a fan of Jane Campion's Oscar-nominated cowboy movie" (L.A. Magazine). Elliott complained about the "allusions to homosexuality throughout the fucking movie," and Marc Maron suggested "that's what the movie's about." And, really, why can't a cowboy movie be about anything? I guess it's irritating to see excessive honoring of a movie that's in your genre and made by an outsider to that milieu. But why can't that be the artistic leverage, the filmmaker's outsiderdom?

"Absent from President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech tonight was almost any mention of the criminal justice reforms that Biden had promised on the campaign trail...." Posted: 02 Mar 2022 06:29 AM PST "'Biden's campaign platform included ending the federal death penalty and solitary confinement, decriminalizing marijuana, and using clemency to free federal inmates serving sentences for some nonviolent and drug crimes. More than a year into the new administration, few of those promises have been fulfilled, frustrating criminal justice reform advocates.... Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were both reluctantly dragged by their party to the left on criminal justice issues, and rising murder rates have made many Democrats hesitant to stray too close to any 'defund the police' rhetoric. (One of Biden's bipartisan applause lines of the night was calling for putting more police on the streets: 'The answer is not to defund the police. The answer is to FUND the police with the resources and training they need to protect our communities.')" From "Criminal Justice Campaign Promises Absent From Biden's State of the Union Speech/More than a year into the Biden administration, promises to expand clemency, decriminalize marijuana, and end solitary confinement and the federal death penalty remain unfulfilled" by C.J. Ciaramella (Reason).

"This is beyond bizarre. Is some woman about to falsely accuse him of something?"/"You have an irrational hate of women and I'm sorry your [sic] so lonely." Posted: 02 Mar 2022 06:24 AM PST From the comments section at "HBO pulls Larry David documentary hours before premiere so comedian can 'do it in front of an audience'/The Larry David Story was supposed to premiere tonight at 9 p.m. ET/PT." Now, the more interesting question is how can you do something live after you already have it filmed? Before you say maybe they never did film this documentary but were always planning to say we're doing it live, look at the trailer, which seems to be evidence — albeit not conclusive evidence — that there was a documentary already made: Key line in there: "I'm a total fraud." It's said to be an extensive interview — Larry Charles interviewing Larry David — so what I'm hoping is happening is that they are following the "My Dinner with Andre" method. To make "Andre," 2 men had extensive, rambling discussions, then they edited it into a very tight conversation, which became the script, that they — actors, now — performed. In this case, perhaps Charles and David filmed long interviews, and the idea may originally have been to edit the footage into a documentary, but then they decided it would be cooler to make a transcript of the edited footage and perform it as actors in one continuous live show.  "My Dinner with Andre" became a classy as hell movie, but LD is a comedian, so, for him, the highest form is speaking to a live audience.

"What makes this memoir so absorbing is that it traces China’s tumultuous recent history through the eyes of its most renowned twentieth-century poet, Ai Qing, and his son, Ai Weiwei, now equally renowned in the global art world." Posted: 02 Mar 2022 04:05 AM PST "It guides us from Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist era in the 1930s, through Mao Zedong's revolution in the 1950s and 1960s, and on to the 'reform era' of Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s and Xi Jinping's current Leninist restoration, explaining how, as Ai Weiwei writes, 'the whirlpool that swallowed up my father upended my life too, leaving a mark on me that I carry to this day.'... It does not take many pages of this memoir to leave one feeling drowned in toxic revolutionary brine. But even as readers will be repelled by the relentless savagery of China's capricious revolution, they will be uplifted by this father-and-son story of humanism stubbornly asserted against it. Ai Weiwei reminds us that freedom is part of being human in the modern world: 'Although China grows more powerful, its moral decay simply spreads anxiety and uncertainty in the world.'"  Writes Orville Schell, "The Uncompromising Ai Weiwei/Ai Weiwei's memoir is a father-and-son story of devotion to free expression and resistance to state pressure" (NYRB).  The book — which I finished reading yesterday — is "1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows."  I should add — on the subject of fathers — that Ai Weiwei has his own son, and, in the text, that little boy flows from his grandfather and father. I highlighted this: One day in my studio, Ai Lao turned to me and said, very seriously, "I don't just do whatever I feel like doing—first I do something, and then I look at what it is."  He had developed a special interest in words, a flair for language. On August 13, he wrote a poem to his grandma. "Fire, why do you burn so fiercely? Mars does not answer, and just keeps burning. Mercury and Mars are so far away they never need to bump into each other, and a desert lies between them, a desert with a pagoda."  Once, in the car, I was telling him stories and asked, "What should we write on a hero's tombstone?"  "Dad, write this," he said. " 'I hope a breeze that likes him blows over his tombstone.' " I loved that line. Keep it for me, I thought.

"I got up to date a year ago, and that's as far as I'm getting — that's your idea? You might as well be a traditionalist." Posted: 02 Mar 2022 04:46 PM PST I exclaimed, just now. ADDED: The subject was applause, a propos of the SOTU, which I had turned off after 20 minutes, largely because I couldn't put up with all the applause, which slows everything down and is an ugly sound. This evolved into the question why the Congress is still using applause, when it is known to be triggering for some people, and how the new thing is to replace hand clapping with finger snapping. But if you're going to replace what is old — here, hand-clapping — with the new, then you take on the obligation to keep up with the new. It's harder to be progressive than traditional. I don't think finger-snapping is the up-to-date substitution for hand-clapping. Haven't there been several sequential replacements? Wasn't finger-snapping found to trigger some people? The search for a silent alternative led to jazz hands, but then jazz hands also proved triggering, and I think I remember seeing that the thumbs-up sign was currently preferred in some empathetic circles.

Men cannot flee Ukraine. They are required to stay and help defend. But what about trans women? Posted: 02 Mar 2022 03:36 AM PST War breaks out in Ukraine, but the battle for trans acceptance is the war within the war. "If you have a male gender in your passport, they will not let you go abroad." pic.twitter.com/WMSLwxLhRr — Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) March 1, 2022

"There were no supplies, and banks didn’t work. I did not realize it would happen this fast. This is Europe. But it is like Kabul all over again." Posted: 02 Mar 2022 03:41 AM PST "I went outside to buy something to eat, but everything was closed. I went to Western Union to get money, and they didn't have cash… just like in Kabul on the day of the fall." Said Masouma Tajik, 23, quoted in "Afghan Refugees in Ukraine Are Reliving a Nightmare/Hundreds of people who escaped the Taliban now found themselves fleeing another war."

"Putin distrusts the West. He is sincerely flummoxed by talk about 'Western values.'... His entourage is afraid to utter a word." Posted: 02 Mar 2022 03:08 AM PST "How far Putin is willing to go—that's not known by anyone. Obviously, he is trying to realize his own conception about the structure of the world and Ukraine... I don't have much hope for Ukraine's negotiations with Vladimir Medinsky, our former minister of culture, who is passionate about the principle that 'truth is what is beneficial to Russia.' This is a joke... I think the plan is to divide Ukraine. With the Western part of the country, whose center is Lviv, the thinking is, Let them live as they want. Central Ukraine, with the center in Kyiv, will have the government that Putin requires, one that is oriented toward Moscow and not the West. And, as for the east, the whole Donbas will be accepted into Russia. Around eight hundred thousand people there were just given Russian passports.... Putin will never leave power of his own will.... His entourage is quite convinced that 'Without Putin, there is no Russia.' ... But the younger generations of Russians, from whom the world and the future are now being taken away, no longer believe this." Said Dmitry Muratov, quoted in "How Russia's Nobel-Winning Newspaper Is Covering Ukraine/'We continue to call war war,' Dmitry Muratov, the editor of Novaya Gazeta, said. 'We are waiting for the consequences'" (The New Yorker).

At the Sunrise Café... Posted: 01 Mar 2022 05:12 PM PST   ... you can talk about anything you want... except the SOTU address. Please go down to the previous post if you want to talk about that. This place needs to be a refuge from that. The photograph was taken at 6:40 — 13 minutes after the view of the sunrise posted earlier today, here. It was a lovely day today — sunny and muddy with cracking ice.

It's SOTU night. Posted: 01 Mar 2022 04:53 PM PST The text will be available here, eventually. And you can watch it live here:   It's a tad late for me... and I'm in the Central Time Zone. How can Biden do it at his age?

Sunrise — 6:27. Posted: 01 Mar 2022 10:44 AM PST

"A thrill, almost like a fad. When you don’t have activities in their communities, everything’s shut down, young people are going to find a way to entertain themselves. It’s recreation, that’s what it is." Posted: 01 Mar 2022 09:47 AM PST Said Warees Majeed, a founder of a group that works with troubled youth in Washington, quoted in "'I Honestly Believe It's a Game': Why Carjacking Is on the Rise Among Teens/The crime has made a resurgence across the country over the past two years, and many of those arrested are startlingly young" (NYT).  The top-rated comment over there is: "Well, the youth are certainly in crisis. But the idea that the pandemic is driving little children to callous, murderous acts is absurd on its face. As the article itself points out, pandemic restrictions were dropped in most places a long time ago and carjackings persist. I will never in my life shake the sickness in my belly I felt after watching the video of the DC carjackers who killed the Uber driver. After stealing his car and killing him, one of the teen girls wails that she left her cell phone in his car and she needs to go back and get it. No reaction to what she had done or to the lifeless body of the man she had just killed lying in the street. She just wanted her cell phone back. Something is seriously broken in parts of our American culture and we need to have an honest discussion about what it is."

"There’s been a shift in the consciousness of people 70 and over... They’re like, ‘Oh my God, nobody wants my stuff. I don’t even want my stuff.'" Posted: 01 Mar 2022 09:37 AM PST Said Ann Lightfoot, founder of a home-organizing company, quoted in "How to Discover the Life-Affirming Comforts of 'Death Cleaning'/Professional home organizers are seeing a spike in calls from older clients who want to cut through the clutter and make their lives more livable" (NYT).

"Zukovskis’s faith, known as Dievturiba, was pieced together from ancient rituals, songs and symbols and is now seeking official recognition from [Latvia]." Posted: 01 Mar 2022 08:16 AM PST "Inside the shrine, Zukovskis, 61, begins with a ritual of gratitude. 'We can feel safe because of support from Britain, the United States,' he says, before listing several other nations. 'Regardless of what Mordor [Russia] does, Ukraine is safeguarded. We're on their side, and they're on ours.'... The rebirth of the Baltic countries' pre-Christian faiths has been intimately bound up with geopolitics ever since they were reconstructed by Latvians, Lithuanians and Estonians under Russian rule before the First World War. After the region was recaptured by the USSR in 1944, neopaganism was banned.... [This] faith is the product of decades of efforts to reconstruct the nature-rooted spirituality that prevailed in the Baltic before the Teutonic knights swept in and imposed Christianity at swordpoint. 'The main gods that we respect are basically connected to what is earth, what is fire; the most basic things for living that we cherish,' says Laimutis Vasilevicius, 68, a Romuva priest in Panevezys. So, for example, the shiver you might feel when something significant happens is identified as the work of Perkunas, the thunder deity." From "The rituals of Paganism are making a comeback deep in the Baltic states/Today the old religions — or a modern approximation — are being revived after being suppressed by missionaries and then the USSR" (London Times). I was interested in that stray "Mordor [Russia]." Googling, I found this BBC article from January 2016: Google has fixed a bug in an online tool after it began translating "Russian Federation" to "Mordor". Mordor is the name of a fictional region nicknamed "Land of Shadow" in JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings books. In addition, "Russians" was translated to "occupiers" and the surname of Sergey Lavrov, the country's Foreign Minister, to "sad little horse". The errors had been introduced to Google Translate's Ukrainian to Russian service automatically, Google said. Google claimed that these translations were not introduced by human manipulation but somehow happened through its automatic process of looking for "patterns in hundreds of millions of documents"! Ha ha. Alternatively, maybe Perkunas did it.

"I biked to the airport. Here’s what it was like/For an hour and a $3.85 bike-share, I assuaged a little climate guilt before a recent flight out of D.C." Posted: 01 Mar 2022 07:36 AM PST  A headline at The Washington Post. I started read it out loud before seeing the second half, so when I finished, I laughed out loud. I laughed because: Don't take the plane!!  The writer, Natalie B. Compton, knows this: After the pandemic started and planes were grounded, I was wracked with guilt over my old frequent-flier lifestyle. Now travel is back, and I'm still feeling bad about flying. Still? Why would you expect it to go away? Because you were deprived and you feel you deserve a treat now?  To be fair, she openly admits it: Before you say it, I will say it for you: Biking to the airport does not offset a lick of damage compared to the environmental cost of taking a flight. As for toting your luggage while biking: I went with my usual duffel bag that could be smashed into the bike's front storage rack. Instead of my go-to leather travel purse, I fit my laptop into a borrowed backpack. And what about the helmet?! You're going to limit what you pack and take a helmet with you on your trip? There was a major flaw in my plan: I didn't have a helmet for the ride. I know you should always wear a bike helmet. There's no doubt about the fact that helmets save cyclists' lives, plus I'm clumsy. Yeah, especially with a pack on your back and a duffel in the front basket.  Look, the solution is obvious, and you know it. If you are as concerned about climate change as your purported guilt suggests, then don't take any inessential plane trips.

"In the name of a level playing field, this is evangelicals finding their way back into the business of converting Native Peoples to the faith of their bronze age deity." Posted: 01 Mar 2022 06:51 AM PST That's the top-rated comment on the Washington Post article, "Supreme Court to review Indian Child Welfare Act, which prioritizes adoptions by Native American parents or tribes."

"'I’ll never have to work again,' Sivert remembers thinking to himself. He quickly started fantasizing about one day using the funds to purchase a car." Posted: 01 Mar 2022 05:58 AM PST "'I thought it was super cool. I had no concept of what $1,800 gets you.' His mother could sense his financial naivete: 'I think he thought it was going to set him up for life,' Lorna said.... And, as he got older and wiser, $1,800 started to seem like a smaller and smaller amount. While working at a local Dairy Queen, 'my first paycheck was just under that [amount], and I was like "Oh,"' Sivert said with a laugh...." From "His mother offered him $1,800 to stay off social media for six years. He just cashed the check" (WaPo). What did the boy learn? Check the most important lesson. You can get along without social media. Instead of making rules, parents can/should incentivize kids' behavior with money. Making a deal, go ahead and take advantage of the other person's naiveté. Get a job, earn your own money, and make your own choices.   pollcode.com free polls

You are subscribed to email updates from Althouse. To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.	Email delivery powered by Google
Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States