My nephew was 14 months old and got to visit mommy when his brother was born.

I don't know, looked a lot like the baby I nanny for after a lunch of sweet potatoes and apricots.

Well, if the kid has special needs and they say no, that could be argued as an ADA violation.  Schools are law-suit skittish.

A disgusting looking 2 month old.  That child is 8 weeks MINIMUM.  Is it stupid for me to be annoyed that newborns on tv are always 2-3 months old?  Because…obviously…newborns are too young to work in television.  That'd just be inhumane, right?

Well kids usually learn to say sorry at a much younger age - and yes, it's phatic (done because they're told to and not as a spontaneous expression of remorse) but they generally learn the script very well.  Eventually they're doing it spontaneously because they've acquired the social behavior of amend-making.

There's a developmental stage, discussed a little in Nurture Shock where a kid's understanding as to what is a lie, when they should lie, and what's bad about a lie is - well, it's different than an adult's.  He tells a little vignet about making an appointment with a pediatrician on the phone and tells them his son…

Actually - yes.  One of the most salient differences between people with aspergers or another autism spectrum disorder is their inability to process emotional cues of their fellows (facial expression, interpreting tone, understanding sarcasm). Aspergers' patients frequently are very perceptive, however, to minute…

I wouldn't say I'm "impressed" with the accuracy the actor/show depicts aspergers, but I have yet to find it at all inaccurate.  Which is saying something coming from a linguist….

That was my take - explains the at-arms-length handshake.

I once met a white sassy lady.  It blew my mind.

I'm pretty sure Laura isn't supposed to be interesting.  She's the covergirl cypher.  Her purpose is to remind us that people in the 60's thought a woman's purpose was to be pretty and accommodating.

See, and that's how you play Liberalism-as-Oneupsmanship. :-D

Not sure how I feel about you defending feminism and making a comment on a woman's weight.  That's a little inappropriate, wouldn't you think?

In my imagination he just inspected them off camera.  That made me feel a little better.

Well, what Germany as a nation does and does not do is going to represent multiple attitudes from the multitude of people and expecting a unitary thought is a bit simplistic.  And it's not my conflation of the issues - it was brought up by Planet Money a couple weeks ago. As for whether or not they're "happy" about it…

Crazy-off-the-wall-connection-to-current-events - sitting in the US in the next century, it's easy to kind of shake our heads and discount the whole "Wow, Germany really ought to be ashamed of itself" trope - but truthfully, it's a current that had a significant effect on the formation of the European Union and the…

I don't think she actually reads it - she's just playing Liberalism-as-Oneupsmanship and Girl trumps Boy.  I always lose to lesbians and women of color.

Was anyone else totally wigged about by Maggie being able to sweet talk her way past a Secret Service Agent 5 months prior to the Kennedy Assassination?   That's not heartwarming.  That's the sort of thing that comes to light in a post-national-tragedy investigation.

River dies as River in the Library.

I don't think the depiction of the baby as being an archvillian was meant to signify anything other than the well-known-but-often-ignored fact that small children are sociopaths.