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Dear NY Times, Here's Why I Haven't 'Grown Up.' Love, a 20-Something {Lemondrop}
Aug 23rd 2010 3:22PM You need to realize that you are simply a product of your culture, nothing more. 35 is the new 25 because our culture and lifestyle allows for it.
If you were growing up in say, rural Afghanistan, you would have been married off at perhaps 13 or 14, raising as many children of your own, one after another, with no say in the matter. Consider yourself lucky, that you are where you are and have the right and means to 'find yourself'.
How I Finally Got Over My Mother's Death {Lemondrop}
Aug 23rd 2010 3:12PM Anna Maria, well said.
I feel more sympathy for the mother in this story. Dying from cancer, with two small children, wracked with pain from a car accident no less... and her daughter thinks it's not too much to demand that her mother make a perfect decision on how to make this situation hold no pain for her daughter's future.
And I have to say, I understand the selfish urge to lash out and unfairly blame that the writer is doing, to her mother. Many of us have those same urges. But at the end of the day, we have to be able to look in the mirror and be honest with ourselves - I'm angry at my mother because I feel like I missed out on something, and I need someone to blame. This woman has no logical reason to curse her mother for anything.
How I Finally Got Over My Mother's Death {Lemondrop}
Aug 23rd 2010 2:33PM ONe thing I've noticed about therapists and analysts; they tend not to judge, they just let the patient get all these thoughts out. This method has its positives but it can also backfire. The patient starts to believe his/her problems are all the result of others, and feels sorry for themselves. At least this writer acknowledges that she acts like a narcissist.
My heart really breaks for her mom. It sounds like this woman very stoically endured all her physical sufferings, with little or no complaining. It's about time her daughter starts appreciating that.
'Returnaholics' cost retailers billions of dollars a year {WalletPop}
May 25th 2010 8:41AM The big retailers have brought this on THEMSELVES. Years ago it was cash only, now stores push their credit cards on EVERYONE, regardless of credit. They have all these 'rewards' programs going, like the more more more you buy, you will get discounts in the future. And lenient return policies are trumpeted, telling the consumer to buy recklessly, because they can return it!
If stores go back to cash only, or get picky with who they give cards to, or get stingy on returns...guess what - people will stop shopping recklessly. And that is what the GREEDY retailers are afraid of.
'Returnaholics' cost retailers billions of dollars a year {WalletPop}
May 25th 2010 8:25AM MWolfe and clowns, I totally agree! I, an honest shopper, am not going to be punished by stores because they want to crack down on the small percentage of scam artists that exist.
'Returnaholics' cost retailers billions of dollars a year {WalletPop}
May 25th 2010 8:21AM It's an ugly practice, but I have little sympathy for the big retailers. If they want to curtail this 'buy and return' rental business, then they should go back to CASH only business.
I remember working in retail back in the eighties; credit cards were rare! We used to be impressed by anyone who paid with one, especially a 'platinum' or 'silver' store card. Now, everyone has not just one credit card but several. It's easy to carelessly rack up purchases. Go back to cash only, and you will see a very different consumer style. But stores won't do this, because they are GREEDY.
Conan O'Brien to NBC: You Broke My Heart {PopEater}
May 3rd 2010 9:39AM Really. Cry me a river, Conan.
He makes it sound like NBC transferred him to the front in Afghanistan.
Too Much Adulation as Woods Contends {Fanhouse - Jay Mariotti}
Apr 10th 2010 12:01PM Totally agree. I'm not even dwelling on the infidelities Tiger had; what I find absolutely repulsive is the calculating, shrewdie way he, and those whom he chooses to surround himself with, go about his business and life. Let's get the gravy train up and running again, boys!
He is back on the golf course, playing like nothing has happened, looking in top form and shape; he must have a hidden portrait at home like Dorian Gray, that shows his true colors.
Too Much Adulation as Woods Contends {Fanhouse - Jay Mariotti}
Apr 10th 2010 11:52AM Wow, the PGA and Nike shills are out in full force.
Your article is 100% on target, Jay. IT's as if this entire "return to golf" has been orchestrated, to preserve the tiger/pga money machine and get everything back to "normal". And everyone involved benefit$ from it.
I agree with the poster who said, it's not that Americans are forgiving, they are amoral.
Did Butler Really Lose to Those Guys? {Fanhouse NCAA Basketball Blog}
Apr 6th 2010 1:58PM To both of you below who commented on barb0301's post: Hello! barb0301 is mentioning that the bulldogs cried, not to mock them, but to correct the writer of this (awful) article, because he specifically had to mention himself that the bulldogs "didn't cry". Couple that with his accusations of Duke "smugness", and you clearly have a writer who only sees what he wants to see.
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