DON'T HAVE ANY MORE KIDS. Seriously. That's how my first was. The second one...was not like that. She's almost five now, and I'm still not used to actually getting to sleep through the night again.

Shit, I lived that nightmare for EIGHTEEN MONTHS. We wanted our kids close together, so we stupidly had a two-year-old and a newborn. Turned out the newborn was very sick for over a year, and because of chronic pain, she screamed all night, every night, and most of every day. Our two-year-old didn't get any sleep for…

I assume there's some logistical reason they have to sleep in the same room, but seriously, I'd be making the three-year-old sleep in the hallway, the living room, the kitchen, the sidewalk—anywhere else.

MSNBC here. That stupid scrolling green and yellow approval line on CNN makes me insane.

Yep, he absolutely hated that anti-choicers co-opted his story for a cause that he thought was totally, completely wrong. He was pretty freaking awesome.

Then the fetus dies, just like people die all the time from lack of a functioning organ system, even though they might have been saved if we all were required to donate our second kidney and lung and parts of our livers to sick people. That's it—sometimes people (and fetuses) die, period.

Dude, at this age, it's all in having awesome parents. I like to think that I'm a pretty decent parent, because I offer the kids as varied entertainments and interests as I can. My six-year-old chose the collected works of Emily Dickenson as her bedtime story tonight, and she also likes to stand on our couch playing…

Holy shit, one of CNN's resident microphone holders just announced that the reason Obama did so poorly in the last debate was because "the president just doesn't understand split screen television. He just didn't understand that he was on tv the whole time."

Military folks are the only ones I give a pass to on using "female" to refer to women, because it is so ingrained a part of the vocabulary, and because "male" is used just as much. Everybody else, no. It's othering and used to help view women as animals.

:high five

Well, we definitely should make it against the law for that one Hulk Hogan type to do the job, then, right?! If only a few women are able to do this job, none of them are allowed to!

Yeah, that's a bit awkwardly worded. I know she means that a larger number of men didn't make it, but it reads oddly.

I don't think that women should be necessarily able to be anything that a man can be, biological differences being what they are—but women should be given the opportunity to try to be anything that a man can be. That is, I am a woman who is not capable of going through this course. That doesn't mean that no woman is,…

Yikes! I'm in a fairly small, not fancy hospital in North Carolina. I presumed that was a nationwide thing? Maybe it's just for our state. It's different if a patient comes in to the hospital with them—then they aren't our fault, so Medicare pays for the treatment for them. We just have to document (thoroughly!) exact…

LOL—to each their own! I really like the desaturation and the textures; that weathered look appeals to me. Perhaps we should call it "pseudominimalism" or "not quite maximalism" or something like that. :) I do agree, however, that the Disney ones are not nearly as good.

Maybe it's because the artist would have had to completely invent the bench in the The Oath, because it's not visible in the original, and he didn't want to add new things to the paintings.

Actually, in my (admitted brief) experience as an RN (I just got licensed this year), I've found that developing new bedsores should be extremely *uncommon* in hospitals, and you will get in HUGE trouble if one of your patients gets one. They are completely, totally preventable by turning the patient at least every…

Oh my God.

Affirmative action an Obama plot? What the ever-loving fuck? A quick Google tells me that the phrase "affirmative action" was first used by President Kennedy on March 6, 1961, and that President Obama was born on August 4, 1961. Perhaps Obama's mother visited the president and he put his ear up to her adorable baby…

If that is wrong, I don't want to be right.