I'm flabberghasted! You're right! I assumed the opposite based pop culture (I know I know...) but sure as day, here it is:

http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/sexualbehaviors/data.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/TeenPregnancy/AboutTeenPreg.htm

Maybe not "for" but you gotta admit that all this mainstream pop culture stuff is surely news TO nerds.

Thats true for the highest brackets, but my point still stands for the 25% tax bracket which starts at $35k and encompasses more than half of all workers (median salary in the US is $44k)

Thats true...IF...you each make under $35K. Median US income in 2004 was $44k.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States#Year_2012_income_brackets_and_tax_rates

The US 33% tax bracket starts at $178K filing single and $217k filing jointly. So if you and your spouse both made $175k pre marriage, just getting married increases your tax rate by 5%. I'm guessing the majority of husbands and wives both work full time nowadays so most people are getting screwed. Those that aren't, have a home maker or trophy wife for a spouse.

In that case, you get those extra 5% in taxes (or $8k) off your tax bill but are also giving up $40k worth of second incomes! And half your assets in the imminent trophy wive divorce (zing!). But if being with your spouse makes you forget about shit like "tax brackets" on every day but April 15, you're good to go. Otherwise you're making a tea party stump speech, grover norquist, or shouldn't be getting married.

The fact that people (Americans included) can think of those topics and speak their mind about them says a hell of a lot about America. Hint: that's a good thing. Please list countries with no skeletons in their closet so we can all move there.

A better analogy would be "colleges need football teams like congress need lobbyists". Lobbyists bring in tons of money and congress changes laws to make them happy. Much to the chagrin of most everyone else. They have all grown much more dependent on each other than fish and bicycles.

Speaking of bitching about paying taxes, I don't understand the mantra of "higher taxes means people won't invest in job creation" etc... Lets say you're a billionaire and pay 15% tax on your investments that earn you $50M/year. If the tax rate gets raised to 30% does that mean you're going to pull out of all your investments to avoid that extra 15% of taxes...and lose out on the frikkin 70% you still would have made!?!? Bullshit. I guess there is always the "they'll just take their money off shore crap.

Fair enough. There is a ton of crap in the bargain bin...but there is a ton of crap from every generation. That incomparable "old content" is cherry picked and I'd bet the past decade has yielded the same amount of great entertainment as any in the 20th century. Plus, the studios already made money off those bargain bin movies and a DVD cost a few cents to press. If anyone buys one for $4.99 its still a win.

But I'm still allowed to hate the game, right?