Good Call, er, Choice

Depression is never fun.  At least that is my personal opinion.  So, even though it makes no sense whatsoever, I am strangely not terribly interested in focusing on depressing stories.  Thus, as the most entertaining, and least depressing story, I am pleased to discuss "Mother's Choice", by Anna Quindlen.  She starts off the story by doing the unthinkable: quitting her job and becoming a mom.  Crazy, I know.  Hasn't she heard the feminist movement demonize motherhood as Chauvinist slavery enough times?  As the author astutely points out, while motherhood used to be the norm and a career so unspeakable as to be almost unheard of, now it is mothers who must break the mold in order to be moms.  It reminds me of the complete lack of logic in an entire generation of teenagers deciding to be rebels.  Just listen to what our hidden bugs have unearthed: "Man, I'm so bored.  What are we going to do??"  "I don't know dude, but check it out!  A ton of people are bein' rebels!  Sounds cool!"  "Yeah, man!  Let's be like everyone else and rebel!"  Is it just me, or is there something terribly ironic about people trying to rebel so that they can conform?  At this point, the true rebels are actually the people who don't do anything stupid.  How weird is that?  Anyway, and now, back to our program.  So our hero, Anna, has decided to break social norms and become a mother!  Life is certainly never dull, and with such comments as "'Don't you ever stick something like that in his ear again or I will throw you out the window!'" the conversation stays lively and witty.  Well, good luck, Hero-Mom!  After all, getting the next generation on-course is the most effective way of all to change the world.