I know it's politically incorrect to "blame" the parents for their kids' criminal activity, but you've got to wonder in the Zimmerman case. I can't believe this family is defending him. Don't get sanctimonious, parents; this isn't about stuff you can't control. I won't necessarily be able to keep my kids from screaming on a plane or throwing tantrums in supermarkets, but I can sure as hell let them know that should they choose to engage in seriously harmful shit, they're on their own.
Frank Bruni has a health-induced gustatory ephiphany:
You never really quite appreciate just what a cornucopia of food alternatives exists — just how many culinary directions you can set off in — until a few are cut off and you’re forced to re-route yourself. That’s a lesson that people with celiac disease and with diabetes have learned. It’s what vegetarians have long asserted. And it’s what gout is teaching me. In diet books, the word “substitution” comes across as some pathetic euphemism for “sacrifice” and “compromise,” a positive-spin noun born of negative circumstances. But substitution is indeed a plausible course, and not necessarily a punitive one. At breakfast, oatmeal thickened with a heaping tablespoon of peanut butter can provide the same wicked indulgence that pork sausage does.
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