Hug Alert

No wonder the New York Times is struggling, they're flushing their resources away on ridiculous, inane articles and videos.

From the New York Times, The Onion's feisty competitor...

[T]he hug has become the favorite social greeting when teenagers meet or part these days.

A measure of how rapidly the ritual is spreading is that some students complain of peer pressure to hug to fit in. And schools from Hillsdale, N.J., to Bend, Ore., wary in a litigious era about sexual harassment or improper touching — or citing hallway clogging and late arrivals to class — have banned hugging or imposed a three-second rule.

Hugging appears to be a grass-roots phenomenon and not an imitation of a character or custom on TV or in movies.

I'm not sure what's worse, the NYT 's writing this article or the idiotic schools that have banned hugging.