Practicalmadness

Mark Pilgrim, web accessibility maven, is discovering that when your bride-to-be decides that it is time to have children, such worldly concerns as Super Bowl parties are of lesser importance.

My suggestion: sell the books. Buy a child. True, the emotional connection you would have had with your own boy or girl will not be there, but like Ripley said right before she dropped a nuclear bomb on the aliens, "it's the only way to be sure."

* This would, I admit, have been much funnier as a title during an age before people heard about 'chemical warheads' on the nightly news every night.