I must put Costco at the top of the list for everything from groceries to electronics. And their pharmacy operation in Irvine CA is far better and cheaper than any drugstore.

Trader Joe's is great too.

I can't fully agree with you on Verizon. My experience with telecom companies is that they operate on the ethical margins. Their complex service arrangements and produce bundlings almost guarantee that at some point you will be overcharged - and - even with good customer service you will be unable or willing to take the time to call them for a very small billing adjustment. Multiply those small errors by millions of customers and you have `real money'.

Also, there is a constant need to call the telecom carriers to...

I've scanned through most of the comments which are generally quite good, so I can't add too much except to agree that the author's concerns seem to be reactionary and based on rather slim evidence.

I suppose that man's interest in the visual portrayal of the pleasures of sex have been around since we were scratching images on cave walls. Only the technology for the delivery of pornography has changed.

No woman can understand the sexual nature of men which reveals itself around age 12 and remains pretty much the same until death.

As for children, if you bring them up with good values, and an open and relaxed attitude about sex, they will be just fine.