Tradition of father's surname in demise

Hyphenation has other pluses. The invented names are distinctive; I’ve never come across a Tuhus-Dubrow outside my immediate family. The inconveniences — blank stares, egregious misspellings — are outweighed by the blessing of never having to worry about a Google doppelgänger. The problem, of course, is that this naming practice is unsustainable. (Growing up, I constantly fielded the question, “What will you do if you marry someone else with two last names? Will your kids have four names?”) Like many of the baby boomers’ utopian impulses, it eventually had to run up against practical constraints. I don’t have children yet, but plenty of others in my cohort — the first in which nontrivial numbers were born hyphenated — do. And reproducing while hyphenated brings inevitable quandaries. I was curious to see how my peers have handled them. So I asked around. What I found was a whole gamut of solutions. The name-blending pioneers now have grandchildren whose names embody an intriguing mix of the traditional and the maverick.

http://beer.weremight.com/forums/showthread.php?10293-Children-of-the-Hyphens-the-Next-Generation

I want an assault rifle for Christmas or the reindeer gets it!

Family fun: A gun-toting youngster poses alongside Santa at a Christmas photo shoot in Scottsdale, Arizona

Toting the gun, and perhaps belts of ammunition around their necks, they smile alongside a rather bewildered-looking Santa.

Children and babies can also get their hands on a firearm of their choice, including grenade launchers, assault rifles and AK-47s.

The picture, taken against a festive backdrop, will then feature on a holiday card.

Afterwards, the families get a chance to test out the machine guns.

http://beer.weremight.com/forums/showthread.php?10292-Scottsdale-Gun-Club-Makes-UK-paper-chimpout

Swedish town erects giant Christmas goat

Sweden was never properly Christianized.

Bow + arrow dipped in pine pitch. Snipe that fucker right in the snout where Euroweenies can't douse it.

Burn, burn, burn!

http://beer.weremight.com/forums/showthread.php?10271-Swedish-town-displays-giant-Christmas-goat

The idea of stay-at-home mums is wonderful but not practical any longer, imo

http://beer.weremight.com/forums/showthread.php?10269-Women-married-with-children-and-working

I know of two families where the wife was/is a stay at home mum. The first refused to work for 20 years. The husband worked 16 hours a day, 7 days a week for years. Eventually, his body couldn't carry on at that pace, so he had to slow down. They had their house repo'd because he couldn't manage the repayments on their 4 bed, 3 bath house SHE insisted on having.

The house was rarely clean, and to add insult to injury, she never cooked meals.

Wife #2 has not worked for 12 years. The husband works all hours. She never helps the children with homework, and their flat is a tip! He can't afford his own home and rents, and battles to pay the rent and utilities.

These two scenarios anger me. Wife #1 got a well-paying job AFTER they lost their home and can never buy another home again because of a bad credit rating.

Wife #2 says her husband is there to provide, even though they eat spaghetti out of a can, on toast, 3/4 times a week for dinner.

People want to enfroce polygamy laws in British Columbia

Indeed, Bauman spent a great deal of time reviewing the testimony of expert witnesses who have studied polygamy in both fundamentalist Mormon and Muslim communities around the world. In every case, they found that polygamy harms women, men and children. Women in plural marriages tend to suffer from higher rates of depression and other mental health problems, and are also at greater risk of physical abuse than women in monogamous relationships. Polygamous women also enjoy little economic freedom or security, particularly if and when they end the relationship.

http://beer.weremight.com/forums/showthread.php?10212-Polygamy-is-crime-in-Canada

the rapid development of the American postwar decades

http://beer.weremight.com/forums/showthread.php?10209-DOCUMERICA-Images-of-America-in-Crisis-in-the-1970s

Water cooling towers of the John Amos Power Plant loom over a home located across the Kanawha River, near Poca, West Virginia, in August of 1973.

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One of four bicyclists holds her ears against the roar of the jet taking off from National Airport in Washington, D.C., in May of 1973.

Muslim Turkeys Invading Americans' Dinner Tables

http://beer.weremight.com/forums/showthread.php?10205-Bryan-Fischer-Sounds-the-Alarm-on-Muslim-Turkeys

I want to talk a little bit about Butterball turkeys. And I want to let you know [that] every single Butterball turkey sold in the United States of America has been sacrificed to Allah.

Every single turkey that Butterball sells has been ritually slaughtered according to Islamic practice and has had an Islamic prayer prayed over that bird while it is being slaughtered.