Response to comments

I really should stir up controversy more often--it's the only way I know y'all are actually reading. Now I know where Donald Trump is coming from.

Look, I'm not the conversation police. I'm not going around measuring when a conversation turns dull. It's situational. All I'm saying is, some parents are so impressed with the mundane details of their children's lives that they sometimes lose perspective about how worthy of conversation those details are. Parents are not the only ones in that situation. Some geeks think everyone cares about the specs of their smart phone. Some bloggers think everyone cares about her relationship with her mother. It's situational.