As soon as my husband and I returned from our honeymoon in May, the questions started. "So when are you going to have a baby?" "Is it baby time yet?" "How 'bout them Red Sox ... and are you pregnant yet or what?"

While parents are quite comfortable with their kids going online for research, they're not so thrilled with the digital social scene.  According to a new study on youth and media by University of California (Berkeley) and University of Southern California, youths feel quite the opposite.  The majority of young people use the internet for "hanging out."  They're still doing what we all did when we were kids - talking gossip, music, movies (anything too cool for adults) - but are now using new media to do it. 

These caramel pecan treats will drive your holiday guests nuts

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Barack Obama's security team is in place and once January 20 rolls around, it should be full steam ahead on his promises about getting us out of Iraq, right?

I’ve always been a worrier, even as a little girl. At first it
manifested itself in variations of the apocalypse. I’d wake up in the
dead of night, convinced I’d been left behind in the rapture. I’d check
on my parents; if they were still in bed, I hadn’t been damned yet (I
also, apparently, wasn’t very optimistic). Then it branched out to more
generic things. In third grade I was in the nurse’s office nearly every
day, convinced I had stomach cancer (must’ve been on Discovery Chanel,
or something). Every time my parents fought, I was sure they were

I have handled holidays beautifully, face-to-face with my ex-husband: Hand the kid off, door closes, deep breath, and get on with your day. Other times she's been crying, or I got her back very unhappy to see me, which is heartbreaking.

'Tis the season to be tipping, Fa la la la, la la la la!  But how much should a recessionista tip and whom should she tip in these tough economic times?

The Etiquette Guru, Peter Post, of the Emily Post Institute and other authorities indicate that tipping can depend on a multitude of factors:

Way to go, Barney Frank. In his defense of the current FDIC Chairman, Sheila Blair, he calls out the incoming leadership's bailout team's decidedly "boyz club" behavior: As Politico writes: