I remember seeing an image of Syrian civilians killed in the civil war laid out in a morgue. There was a baby (maybe 6 months old) lying beside her dad and aside from their wounds, it looked like they were napping together. It took me days to shake that image. Parenthood is intense.

The bit about the final "stroller ride" on the gurney got me. Done.

I think your usual sense of humor didn't translate as apparently as it usually does with this one. The point you make above wasn't clear with your first joke. Give her a break - as the author of this piece says, once you're a parent, all of those babies become your baby.

And then there's the extra-special variety, created when Putin squeezes a lump of coal between his pectoral muscles.

This is why I have problems with public school parents being asked to contribute so much these days. A good public school system should address issues of inequality rather than exacerbate them. Sure, fundraise to help out all students, but don't expect individuals to provide, because you're automatically creating a…

One wonders what the distinction is between that and an in-wedlock one. Regardless, this sounds like a horrific tale all around. Those poor kids.

Shockingly, raised by a very old-school conservative mom in a family of all sons. All 3 boys are pretty great in how they treat women.

I should have put an asterisk by my comment about my husband. He still says the wrong thing at the wrong time now and again. I think your point is spot-on about kids playing together. I think girls need to learn to build networks in the way that boys and men do, and boys need to learn to empathize in the way that…

Usually APs are in charge of discipline in a school. Her first recourse was to call the school cops? Not to take this child to her office for a talking to? Not to set out the negative consequences the student would face? There are so many other reasonable ways to have handled this.

I find that a lot of men haven't been encouraged to empathize with women and girls and are fairly shocked when, upon having a daughter, they do. I'm all for this happening, but it wouldn't be such a revelation if we just encouraged this in boys from a young age. I have to give my husband a lot of credit- he was a…

My dog already has intelligence and he is more than a near-equal (in his opinion).

I hope you're right about Galliano. I'd really like to see one of the French houses knock it out of the park, because there's a lot of unsatisfying couture at the moment.

If only John Galliano had not turned out to be such an atrocious human being. He was one of the few who could do both. I weep for what Dior has become.

I want to be irritated by her, but find her entertaining and kind of refreshing (while often cringing at her). It's confusing, and I think she elicits this in a lot of people.

I kind of love that about him and Carolina Herrera. They make clothing for adult women that is generally flattering to an adult woman's body and mostly avoid trends or incorporate them with a light hand. I love the envelope-pushing stuff, but I find that it often seems created in such an abstract way as to be…

I recall once that my Vietnamese colleague asked me how I got my butt to look like it did. It was such a scales-falling-from-my-eyes moment, considering that I had spent a great deal of effort to get it to look anything like what it did. Narrow notions of beauty, indeed.

They have a kid? Poor thing.

It really does look like she slaps/swats at him at the most. And even when she charges after him in the elevator, couldn't he just restrain her arms? Isn't he, as a football player, pretty good at dealing with people coming after him without punching them? It reminds me of some of the allegations against Floyd…

Spitting on someone is such a terrible, insulting thing to do. And so weird.

Basically anything that purports to be "skin tone" needs to have a variety of colors available. Get on it, people!