How great to see a national rag using celebrity to highlight how terrible teen momhood can be - that the grabber cover quote underscores this teen mom's immaturity, so much the better. I remember during the whole Bristol thing how we regretted her and her mom making teen motherhood sound so peachy keen. Grateful to see the counterpoint's coming through now.
Having spent a lot of time all over Florida, the only parts I ever found worthwhile were the beaches of Pensacola (now befouled with oil) and Key West. The rest can suck it.
IIRC, Miami or Florida is basically foreclosure capitol of the nation. So yeah, boarded up malls. Not that I've ever really liked commercial strip malls, but boarded up ones are just sad.
@9: As a parent, I can vouch that *motherhood* is far from peachy keen. Nevermind being a single teenager who is in the throes of the realization that the best years of their life are now lost to them.
49 out of 50 states have snow right now. What's the one state holding us back from perfection? Florida! That state always finds a way to ruin everything. Even Hawaii chipped in. Stop being a dick, Florida.
Being from Palm Beach County, I can tell you your description of South Florida is dead-on. (Orlando is even worse in the walkability department, though.)
*Cardiac - hate to correct people, but I couldn't help it. If you said pseudohermaphroditism or salpingohystero-oophorectomy, I hope that I would be more lenient. Alas....
@22 Wouldn't most doctors just call that second one a complete hysterectomy (or ovario-hysterectomy), anyway? Maybe somewhat less precise a term, but it's not like they'd take your uterus and your ovaries and leave the tubes.
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*hangs head in nerdy, nerdy shame*
Also, I'd like to take a moment to say that if this were the summer of 2008, Dan's trip to Miami would likely have included spotting the guy whose torso appears in my avatar, who is now my husband (and who, while in Miami, generally spent most of his time no more clothed than you see here). So Dan, you missed out on what was possibly the one redeeming factor of the city.
Speaking of shaving cream, have you read this story by Sean Bonner not using soap (except on his hands) or shampoo for over a year? He says it's great and highly recommends it:
Wait, what kind of pictures were in the book?
They like 'em hairless down there.
Break a leg tonight, be it shaven or no...
The best advice Dan can give to the people living there is to leave that hellhole and never look back.
This is the real America. Partly-boarded-up strip malls, highways, remaindered Jesus books, unwed mothers selling their story to gossip magazines.
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*hangs head in nerdy, nerdy shame*
Also, I'd like to take a moment to say that if this were the summer of 2008, Dan's trip to Miami would likely have included spotting the guy whose torso appears in my avatar, who is now my husband (and who, while in Miami, generally spent most of his time no more clothed than you see here). So Dan, you missed out on what was possibly the one redeeming factor of the city.
Speaking of shaving cream, have you read this story by Sean Bonner not using soap (except on his hands) or shampoo for over a year? He says it's great and highly recommends it:
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/05/i-h…
http://www.realstylenetwork.com/index.ph…
if you say so.
illiterate asshole.
You know,
THE ARIZONA KILLER IS AN ATHEISTS.....
You're a grown man, Dan. Not a college kid, not a grounded teenager.
If you knew how to fucking drive a car, you wouldn't have these kinds of problems.