Not too long ago I was reading an article (don't ask me why) about professional cheerleaders. One such cheerleader was interviewed for the piece, and voiced her disappointment that people still believe in the dumb cheerleader stereotype, countering that cheerleaders work really hard. Um, pardon me, but just because you work hard at something doesn't …

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Back in my day, kids didn't have cell phones. Ok, so just about no one else did either, but still. Nowadays they're making a cell phone basically just for kids (see here) that only dials a pre-defined list of phone numbers. Um. Back in my day, if, say, a kid needed to call his mom …

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