I don't know which part sounds more crazy. On the one hand, yeah, I know, people who co-sleep or have the child spend an extended period sleeping in the same room figure out ways to have sex. But in my exhausted, new parent daze, in which we can barely gather up the energy to have sex all that often but do at least…

Precisely. Precisely right. As I said in a different reply, I was starting to realise that while I felt that kind of office-water-cooler in touch with friends, seeing their little posts and updates and so on, I didn't really know what was going on in their lives. And most of the hundreds of people I was friends with…

I, personally, would never go to http://tv-links.eu/ and watch the whole damn series as it airs. Not I.

Those are not your real friends.

I did it too, over two years ago. And I was a heavy user, oh lordy, I was. I've become much more productive since then, despite the internet offering up many other sources of distraction. And I've realised that relationships still really do take work, facebook or no facebook. FB made me feel as though I was "in touch"…

Some areas of the medical profession are really not about giving a fuck. Surgeons are pretty notorious for being callous, for seeing people as bags of flesh, but in some sense they have to in order to do their job. When someone is cutting into you, the really important thing is that they're damn good at cutting and at…

Thanks for this. I think the desire to stop fat-shaming — honorable in and of itself — sometimes leads to a bit of a disconnect with reality.

Soul guy sees it from the same angle I do... as in, he thinks prostitution would take an emotional/spiritual toll on someone else because it would on him. I've often had that instinct too. I can appreciate, rationally, that not everyone is wired the same way, and that people have totally different kinds of…

Humour is a powerful weapon, and it's often been one of the few defenses of the politically powerless. There's nothing childish about it. I suspect this may be a cultural thing — I understand if you think only serious op pieces with footnotes are valid contributions to the discussion, but I would argue that deflating…

I don't think so but am not sure. I'm really hoping the Republican debates were a check-list of people we will never see again in the public sphere.

I think a dollop of nice, frothy Santorum usually does the trick.

I agree with this. Besides which, it's completely possible for a mom, whether SAHM or office mom, to snap and kill her own children. Happens often enough. So there's nothing to say that this would never have happened.

There are 168 hours in a week. A workweek is about 40, perhaps a few more. That still leaves 130, maybe 120 hours of parenting for your average working mom, and considering how round-the-clock childcare is, that really is a fair amount. I think that's plenty of material for a blog.

I for one love your black bitter heart.

So many women in my home country died from illegal abortions. My mom almost did. I have a (somewhat older) friend who almost did, and who was left sterile. It's horrific. The stories are simply horrific.

I have a serious problem with the continuation of the US's wars, and so my heart does not flutter when Obama says something I like to hear. But outlawing abortion does also result in actual deaths of people, in my experience, lots of them. And I don't think it's totally irrational for women in a country to vote for…

I pluck mine for me. Husband has never mentioned noticing anything, but they bug the hell out of me.

I'm actually a mom who was for crying it out — but at 4 and 5 months it still didn't work for us. He just kept crying. On the other hand, his sleeping got better naturally. Hmmm..

The key is — to check his breathing (and/or body temperature) without waking him up. That takes skillz.