I know it's not going to happen, but I just had this gleeful image of people having to actually put some thought and love into their gifts— like, making something for someone, or driving your children to see something once-in-a-lifetime beautiful— instead of cheap toys or electronics that fall apart right after New…

I gotta say, as a mom with probably more than my fair share of paranoia, I would still feel like a total lunatic insisting that ALL single adults must vacate a park because one of them MIGHT be a pedophile. Very silly.

I'm almost positive this case featured heavily in Susan Faludi's "Backlash," so I know I can go look up all the ins and outs. I don't know off the top of my head, and can't think of a scenario in which the fetus would be in more danger than it would be by being born at 23 weeks!

Yeah, still doesn't seem logical to me. She'd been married to the guy long enough to have two kids (about 10 and 6 in age, I guess). He's been deployed long enough to have been in active combat— she must know from either her fellow army spouses or directly from Abraham what kind of shit he'd seen and done. But she is…

But they touted success in reducing actual pre-term deliveries. Now that I've read the attached article, I see that they're doing it through access to prenatal care and cutting off funding through Medicaid for elective early delivery before 39 weeks.

Yes, those TV shows reflect the reality that one can lose weight if one wants to... for just as long as the cameras are on. Have you ever seen any of the follow-up stories? Guess how many people are able to maintain those drastic losses of weight (hint: not many)? Guess how many of them actually become personal…

Others here have indicated that they were his real family from the comics, so I tend to believe it. I think they must have had reason to fear him, otherwise I don't see exposing my kids to the zombies to get away, just because he went apeshit on some bad guys. But that's just me.

So did the "nice officers" stop by to tell him the statistics on domestic violence convictions, and that's what gave him hope?

I have friends who had twins at 24 weeks: one survived, one didn't. The survivor is developing well, but experiencing the kinds of developmental delays that seem to be expected for 24-weekers (vision, breathing, size).

There is a TINY percentage (like less than 1%) of pregnancies that need to be terminated after twenty…

That's why I want to see how it is that the March of Dimes is saying they're reducing pre-term births. How are they reducing them, if not by allowing severely pre-term pregnancies to end without intervention (or moving the goal posts on when to intervene)? Again, people are only having pre-term deliveries out of…

But this was a 26-week pregnancy with an already very seriously ill mother. I would think that even now, the chances of viability in this scenario would be very slim.

Viability at twenty-three weeks gives me serious pause. How many children born at twenty-three weeks actually survive? How many survive without massive…

Ooh, good point. Anyway, Glenn's not really "wise old man" material. So he's safe. He better be!

Do you think Ben drunk dials Matt and asks him if he likes him (Ben) more than George Clooney?

I haven't read the graphic novels, but I think Abraham makes a pretty good foil for Rick. He has Shane's cockiness without some of his worst tendencies. I think he may have been abusive to his family before the apocalypse, too: they were definitely afraid of him- enough to risk zombies to try and get away from him. So…

I forgot the bit where he called it a "Tennessee top hat". Awesome.

Yeah, when he "explained" what he was going to do in DC to Sasha back at Terminus, my BS meter went off. He just had a real "I'm a genius in my mom's basement on the Internet" manbaby vibe.

I'm just really glad that he clarified that it was male semen.

I tried Liberte this weekend and it is TRANSCENDENT. I will never look back! Thank you!

I can't help but think that I'm bucking this trend with extreme prejudice.

I want this owl's face on a t-shirt, STAT.