From tipster Uncle Munki comes this Consumerist discussion of a Bob Saget TwitVid (God, I love writing sentences like that!) that the comedian took on a six-hour flight of a screaming baby with a cowbell. The Consumerist commenters include lots of the kind of kneejerk babyhating we saw in our own Crotchfruit-on-Barstool debate–as if the …
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Girding for the Big Want
Mail comes to our house. Bills and postcards and renewal notices with some Chinese takeout menus for good measure. These things do not draw any interest from our children, except if they can be scribbled on. Neither has the wave of kid-gear catalogs that come in the mail as well. We’ve been getting at least …
Hola, Lawsuit!
Swiper, no swiping! The real Dora the Explorer–14-year-old Caitlin Sanchez of Fairview, NJ–feels cheated by Nickelodeon and its owner, the giant vampire media squid Viacom. While she provided the voice of Dora, she was forced to travel around the country promoting the show on a $40 per diem. And apparently she was pressured into signing …
A Nobel for IVF
The best summation I heard about this piece of good news came from my friend Jeffery L., who wrote about it on Facebook: The prize was criticized by the Vatican, consistent with their reproductive policy that the world needs more unwanted children, and fewer wanted ones. Infertility is not a mark of God’s disfavor. And the …