I fully admit that a week of dealing with my personal Tino has made me more sensitive to everything. Let's just pretend I didn't say anything. Move along people, nothing to see here...

I always thought that rule was less for sex offenders than for teenagers. I have seen much older kids take over playground spaces and make it uncomfortable for little kids to be there. And the response was always something like "Fuck you, we have a perfect right to hang out here." Well, now they don't. And I say this as a teenager who loved hanging out in playgrounds.

A bunch of hulking 17-year-olds whose aim is to intimidate can be a real playground buzzkill.

ita, they're playing episodes that were pulled before the reboot - and this is despite the fact that they said they weren't going to do that.

There's a new park with a playground in a sort of marginal neighborhood in my city, and the only people I have ever seen there are several middle aged men (50s-60s) in a group. I don't know if they are homeless or from the neighborhood, or if they are responsible for the empty bottles around the park. But it doesn't inspire me to take my kids down there, I tell you.

I always thought that rule was less for sex offenders than for teenagers. I have seen much older kids take over playground spaces and make it uncomfortable for little kids to be there. And the response was always something like "Fuck you, we have a perfect right to hang out here." Well, now they don't. And I say this as a teenager who loved hanging out in playgrounds.

Yeah, that also makes a lot of sense.

Pix, I wasn't just responding to you, more the general conversation.

Thanks, Jesse. Like I said, it's been a week.

In completely separate news...CJ is off to a concert at Red Rocks. He is seeing Chicago and Earth, Wind, and Fire. I doubt he can name a song from either band.

Suzi, that's so funny! What prompted him to go?

I just can't get over how fucking whiny that article was. The sign that she's bitching about being too small to see? It's about the same height as my four year-old. (And I don't mean it's at his eye level, I mean it's at least four feet tall. If you sit on that bench in that playground all the time, unless you are blind or illiterate, you know damn well what it says.

If she was sitting there as some kind of civil disobedience thing to protest the law about adults in playgrounds? FINE. I have no problem with that. I think the laws are there to create welcoming spaces for children who might not otherwise have a free space to play, but fine. Take a stand, go nuts.

But to say, essentially, but I break this law all the time! Why should I have to pay a fine just because I got caught???? Is stupid.

I just can't get over how fucking whiny that article was.

On this we are in agreement.