In 2009 the Kardashians were already a thing. Twilight stars were a thing. An 87 year old woman was probably not going to be anybody’s go-to source for hot gossip.

Yeah I think this feeling doesn’t resonate with me because I don’t measure my worth through beauty and fame. Only wealth.

Sure, if the thoughts were applicable to Liz Smith and Liz Smith only, I’m sure my sympathy would be affected. But I think her meditation could apply to anyone; I’m middle-aged now and I, in the (paraphrased) words of Tennyson, am not now what I was in my youth. It is sad to look back upon a career where you had…

She was fired from the Post in 2009, and says the Daily News rejected her subsequent offer to write for them for free.

Children have always been chattel though. That is backed up by every major religion in this world.

Back in the fairly recent past, (white) America got a sweet sweet taste of the power to own another human. I suspect this has corrupted us very much, and has tainted our concept of parenthood (and marriage!) with these otherwise forbidden rights of ownership.

He did it for other Republicans. With that whole cancer thing going on McCain most likely will not run for reelection. He can do whatever he wants. Other Republicans who have to worry about reelection didn’t want to be seen reneging on a campaign promise. Look for more moves like this. He can take shield other…

This doesn’t even mention the frenzy of prejudice-based false concern. I let my 10 son walk to swim lessons alone, swim without me, then walk home and I am terrified — not for his safety but that someone will call CPS on me. And think of what people are afraid of... “What if some (boogeyman black guy) robs him? What…

Oh, you’ll still hear Republicans talking about “a culture of life” every time they make it harder for women to access reproductive health care. It makes me want to scream, “No, you don’t care about a culture of life because if you did, you would enact programs that protect pregnant women and the children once they’re…

I have been consistently shocked at the number of people essentially expressing the opinion that, when it comes to starving children in this country, letting an entire family starve is better than the alternative of giving them financial support and having the parents also benefit from it.

Are you ok with no giving a shit about other kids that may not be lucky enough to have you as a mom and need help and services? That is the question here.

When your compassion is so heavily outweighed by your hatred for people who don’t “deserve” what you have, this is of course the society we get. They want to feed the right kind of children from the right kind of families.

There was a good commentary on a local news site about the fact that an attempt to get a town to hire summer lifeguards was met with angry “Watch your own damn kids” by the assholes who think of all taxes as theft.

As the Buddha once said, “The suffering of others does not become real until one suffers through reading a blog written by White moms.”

You’d think our leaders could at least offer our children a modest proposal.

Yeah I think the problem isn’t not caring about children, it’s caring too much about your own children and not at all about anyone else’s.

Yeah I went out wandering around the woods by my self when I was 6 I would take my grandparents dog on walks by myself around town at the same age too and i’m pretty sure letting a kid do that now would get child services called on you.

Umm excuse me I affixed a bumper sticker to my car that says “can’t feed ‘em, don’t breed ‘em” and so clearly I have done my part in helping solve child hunger and structural inequality. Now, off to vote for cuts to health care that I’m sure will never affect myself or anyone I love because I am neither a child nor…

A thousand times this. It’s the Dwayne Hoover complex, extended to one’s family. The only real people are me and mine, and everyone else can hang.     

John Mulaney has a bit in one of his standup specials where he says that he grew up before children were special, and I know what he means. I was often allowed to just sort of do as I pleased, and those days are over. However, I think we now live in a time in which only one’s own children have any value. Other…