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Sometimes I think about the fact that the average American lives better than royalty did 300 hundred years ago.  Indoor climate control?  Running hot water?  Luxury food items from all over the world (that is, if we can tear ourselves away from pizza and burgers)?  None of these things were easily available to King Charles, but we take them for granted.  Really, it's quite amazing.  Then, I'll see a commercial to make an everyday luxury even better.  (Or, 'better', depending on your point of view.)

Last evening, I saw a commercial for a paper towel that stretches.  Really.  As if it weren't enough to be able to rip a few trees off a roll every time we have a minor spill.  No, apparently now they have upped the ante, and the paper towel has to stretch. 

What's next?  Blankets that heat themselves?  Bowls made of bacon?  A machine that vacuums the floor by itself?  Whoops, of course, all of these things are already on the market... and we wonder why we're getting soft.