But year-round schools still have summer vacations, they just don't have them for three months. Isn't six weeks of crickets and seaweed enough, especially if you get extra weeks off for picking up leaves in the fall and making snow angels in winter?

But you would still have summertime; year-round schools are still off for weeks over the summer. My niece is in year-round school and gets a six-week summer vacation. Isn't that enough to unwind without getting utterly bored to tears? And you'd still have another six weeks' of vacation during the actual school year!

I want to know where the cheap summer camps are too! Good Lord, do I need one. Our local YMCA is $85 per month for a family membership (after the $75 joining fee), plus an extra $55 per month during the summer for day care. That's not a ton compared to a full-time day care, but it's also not year-round, so your kids…

One of my kids was actually pretty non-squished and non-alien looking when she was born, and I texted the first picture of her (post-bath, of course) to a good friend. She sent back the best compliment I have ever received about my child: "Wow, most newborns are so creepy looking, but yours actually isn't totally…

LOL! I do that on here occasionally—sometimes I don't realize there are slideshow pictures under the main one. Now you can be super-happy that there is so much more information available! :)

That is FUCKING AWESOME. Genius.

The only criticism I have heard of her hair in real life was an African American woman at work who said she looked like "a hot mess" and had "a cheap weave" and that if Gabby was going to be representing black women at the Olympics, she ought to look better doing it. That made me really sad.

You have to pay them for an extra month of work, I assume is what they mean.

The reason it's not a very common expression is because most of us learned that it was rude and offensive about twenty damn years ago. I remember my parents telling me that it was totally not okay to say in the late 1970s.

Ah, such a classic: The old "You're just over-reacting!" derailment! http://www.derailingfordummies.com/emotion.html

Actually, it wouldn't surprise me that much if they used the same surrogate as another famous couple they are friends with. It's terrifying enough to trust your baby's growth and birth to another human being, and on top of that, they need to make sure that whoever they choose won't sell their personal details to a…

I am incredibly disappointed that this is not a post about how you can now get banh mi online. :(

I often have that problem with these minimalist posters—they aren't very useful as advertising vehicles, although they're wonderful as actual art. For instance, I haven't seen Source Code and have no idea what it's about, and the poster above doesn't help me in the slightest. I assume the guy is standing in a clock,…

That Harry Potter one really is terrible, which is a shame, because the rest are so brilliant and wonderful. Why are his glasses over his mouth? Why is the young, brave, pure-hearted hero made to look like the evil villain? I would love a nearly identical design and color scheme, but with Voldemort instead. His…

It's gotta be the giant forehead. His forehead is as tall as his entire face! The facial hair and overly serious expression aren't helping either.

One of the major arguments against letting Pistorius compete in the Olympics is that they don't know precisely how long his legs would have been, so he may be getting an unfair advantage if he has longer blades than they should be. Of course, it's possible they may also be shorter than they should be, giving him a…

I had to shut it off because I was seriously worried about having a seizure, but I'm glad I stuck around for the comments. You are awesome.

Oh, he definitely did, and it is a beautiful ring, and ten years later, I still love it (and him) beyond all reason.

It's been a while since I've rewatched Doctor Who, but I have a question that's been hanging around for ages: Didn't Rose destroy every Dalek who ever existed, demolish them down to the atoms, when she used the time vortex on them? How have they come back? I do remember that prison ship that was bigger on the inside,…

Adorable in the sense that baby great white sharks are adorable.