Overlooked this original.

Nick re-ran a cartoon for this-- one which IS worth rerunning for so many Hax columns that it's a surprise it's not running every week (the words have been slightly tweaked maybe.)

It features a three-way split screen on TV with various talking heads and a blurry TV logo. "There's been a secondary pandemic of people totes flipping their sheesh."

Gist: Mom is upset that her daughter's live-in boyfriend didn't get invited as a plus one to a cousin's whatever or something-or-other wedding. Everybody else was fine, but Mom signs herself as "Momma Bear" which is always a very bad sign of a woman who has no sense of boundaries with her adult kids.

Hax sets her straight accordingly. And a year later, Mom wrote in to say "she learned a great deal from her response", went into therapy, and all that. And signed herself "Reformed Momma Bear."

And for your reading pleasure, now I've given away the surprise twist ending:

https://wapo.st/3MMmVgy

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