Unlike some people, I don't usually consider a lack of response to one of my posts to be a sign of some kind of great debate victory on my part. I do get disappointed if I lay out some detailed response countering something, and get not even a nibble in return, but that doesn't happen very often. I'm well aware that most of us have lives.

My daughter is trying to get into renting a house next year with some friends. When I was in college, I worked most of the time, and couldn't come home in the summer. When the dorms closed, I had to scrounge local housing. Some of it wasn't pretty--frat houses rent rooms over the summer.

When I got my first efficiency apartment, I thought I was in heaven. It was the first time I had a bathroom to myself, not to mention a refrigerator and stove.