One hundred and fifty years after the abolition of slavery, Mississippi has finally done the same. Now that's southern progress.

Hard to plan for retirment when you can't make enough money to keep a roof over your head. Seems like a dream to put money way in a stock market driven 401K in hopes of "making it rich".

Suicide is probably my retirment plan if all else fails.

#2 - Suicide is definitely the plan, god-willing.

This country is so childish. Just remove the earnings cap from Social Security, lower the percentage everyone pays, and we're set pretty much forever. After all, it's in everyone's interest, even the rich, to not have homeless old people dying in the street. (Or is the plan to re-open the county old people's homes?)

And while we're at it, lets fold Medicare/Medicaid/tricare/the VA system, and all the other government healthcare programs into one and just cover everyone. We'd probably save a lot of money.

But no, we must continue to enable a childish minority who insists, against all evidence, that if we just believe hard enough, the Ronald Reagan fairy tale (that even he didn't believe in) will finally come true.

NYT's David Carr tweeted a link to this year's Polk Awards for journalism. For us journalism fans there's no better list of must-reads. I'm guessing to a journalist this could be super inspirational. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/18/nyregi…

Has there ever been a series as good as Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man? That's what I watched growing up...too bad it's not on Amazon Prime.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Ascent-Of-Man-…

It's The Feminine Mystique. Not sure if you're continuing to misspell it, or just fucking with us at this point...

It's too bad they didn't compare kids who watch no TV. Parent's use studies like this to rationalize using TV as a babysitter. It's exactly the same as a smoker who thinks they'll be better off if they just cut down to half a pack a day.

Bloody cricket back? He hates insects too?

@6,8, etc. Sorry! I'm not really all my game at 5:00 a.m. (And @8, it's a mistake I've made ever since I can remember--much like I pronounce "pedestrian" "pede-strain" nine times out of ten. Just how my brain works. But thanks for the fix!)

@4 said it all.

Childish and selfish.

"Children Are What They Watch: A Seattle-based study on children's television viewing habits suggest that the more educational programming children watch, the more likely they are to be respectful and well-behaved."

Or they're much more likely to have parents who give a rat's ass than kid's who's parents sit them down in front of Judge Judy.

I don't believe Pistorius' story, but given the state of the SA police, calling the relatives first is quite understandable.