Okay, okay, I admit it: in a few short years (well, ten) I have devolved from a Comp. Lit. major with aspirations to joining the ranks of academia to a man who absolutely LOVES fantasy football (for the under-educated, please follow this link for a high-level view of the topic).

Call me names (slacker, Joe Blow, etc.), call me what you will, but I think I may have found my procrastination activity of choice - for the rest of my life. (Sorry, honey.)
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Last winter, the little start-up I had joined two years ago was - astoundingly - acquired by one of the largest Internet companies out there.

We all rejoiced. No more running out of VC money or dealing with crappy benefits or no bonuses; we would finally be rewarded for our years of toil.

But oh how times have changed (as we all know) since the beginning of this year…
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And now for a few questions…

Were you listening, watching, and freaking when this happened?

Does this news make you nervous and unsettled?

Are you just as anxious as I am about the fact that our country is on its way down and no real leader(s) to get it going in the right direction?
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Guess who’s the disciplinarian in the family, Brad or Angelina? That’s right, it’s mommy. Are you surprised that it’s the woman in the house? I’m not.

It seems that if you look back across the landscape of American mass culture of family sitcoms (which obviously perfectly reflected life at the time - Growing Pains, anyone?), you actually see families where the fathers are stern, but the mothers “run” the household. When the kids mis-behave, the threat is always: “Just wait until I tell your father…”

So what’s changed, if anything?
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