If I were a parent, I’d thank the Great Pumpkin every day for advocacy groups and lawsuits like this one, which demonstrate a tireless commitment to absolving me and my peers of any personal responsibility whatsoever for how our children are raised…

Why merely turn off the TV or (Great Pumpkin forbid) say “no” to your kids when you can sue someone else into saving you the effort? Or why make your kids do their homework when you can simply sue the school system for a better grade?

Litigation: the top-rated American substutute for parenting skills twenty years running…

Found this on eBay while looking for something else. I have to wonder about the customer who might have been expected to purchase this back in 1910. Frankly, it just seems a bit tasteless to write “Having a lovely time. Wish you were here!” on the back of a postcard showing an orphanage…

Random observations from your favorite web-journalling housewife:

• When people from organizations like this one call my number to do a survey and ask for “the lady of the house”, I never remember in time just to say “this is she” and see how they react…
• Triple coupon day at Lowes is a wonderful thing…
• Daytime TV all in all is NOT a wonderful thing, although I am excited to note that Dish Network seems finally to have added Oxygen, so I can get my Grace Under Fire re-run fix…

Kinkos: The Game (via Rae)…