Up quite early this morning to vote. Took J.P. along with me, which, as with many things with a 3-year-old, wasn’t easy. First, had to convince him we were voting and not boating, an activity he is afraid of. Then a lengthy argument about wearing his coat. Then about his hat. Then about bringing his …
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Perhaps if Cookie Magazine had run more articles like “Vice Is Nice” in its august pages, it wouldn’t have gone out of business. Or perhaps it was this good/terrible all along, and I just never knew it because of the ridiculous name, the elevation of consumerism-as-religion, or the vanity photo spreads about super-vegan celebrity parents? …
First, I’d like to introduce an amazing word I came across in my travels through the internets recently: superfetation. Don’t know it? Well, superfetation happens to be “the formation of a fetus from a different menstrual cycle while another embryo is already present in the uterus,” according to the knowledge fellows over at wikipedia. That …
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