[Tax-chick]

You can come live with us. I’ll teach you Spanglish and put you to work rocking babies, which I assume I’ll be having into my 50s.

On the “macro” scale, however, I think your analysis is correct. Women live longer and have higher medical costs than men, so the pure utilitarian tactic would be to eliminate elderly women.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Gracias, Tax-chica. I'm hoping my sons will be having grandkids, so eventually Don-o and I will have little Don-o's (Donitos?) to raise up to the taxpaying, beer-drinking and rosary-saying level.

-- Senor escuchame ---

I honor you, proud pillar of geriatric maternity. And think of you in the daily Genesis readings --- which are wow-ee!--- in this week of Ordinary Time.