Holy shit! You've touched every parent's heart. Though it may not be any comfort and of course condolences for your loss, but thanks for sharing. Your story needed to be told.

Back during the comment system rollout on Gawker, someone asked Nick Denton to give an example of the kind of post that had been quashed due to fears of how the commenters would react. In his reply, the example he offered was that a blogger for Jezebel wanted to do a first-person about hiring a male escort. I remember…

I realize guys and gals have evolved since I was socially active, but my instinct says that if it took two weeks and a few dates for him to mention that he has a girlfriend (and if it's not a new relationship), he may have been leaving the door open for extracurricular activities or for him to make a "mistake" and he…

Thanks for the clarification. That's why I added the bit about the legal definition. I remember there was some discussion of fertilizer sources during the organic spinach scare and I know it's pretty strict because I've known some family farmers, who didn't qualify.

The HuffPo piece quotes someone from the Green Science Policy Institute theorizing that the HCBD could break down into dust and work its way into the air, water and into sewage sludge, which could be used as fertilizer on the peanut fields or in the case of cold cuts, the pastures the source livestock use for grazing.

Technically, the HuffPo link says the researcher wouldn't reveal which peanut butters they tested, only "that all were 'conventional' brands and not brands that market themselves as organic". So, it sounds to me that rather than the organic brands being safer, they were simply were not tested and because it's…

I've mentioned a couple of times in response to these posts that my wife and I did the whole attachment parenting thing, including self-weaning and co-sleeping.

We did the attachment parenting thing. We co-slept and let the kids self-wean — one child nursed longer than the other, but it was their decision when to stop and after a while, they mostly nursed at night. Being a typical male, I taught them to use the word "titty" and before it became mostly a way to soothe them to…

It's been a while since my kids were young enough for them to have any value, but a guy who did the work/stay thing, I'll say that the big one wasn't bad to keep in the "reading room". It's pretty cheap, if not free, everything is in tiny bits and it can occasionally spark an idea.

To aggrandize.

As a stay-at-home/work-from-home father with two kids, I noticed the parenting magazines usually only had one or two "Dad" stories a year and the same can be said for their sites. I don't really know how much this weighed in dropping the subscriptions — I think it was more, once you figure out parenting, they're not a…

I streamed through several episodes of Australia's Blue Water High a couple of years ago, via theWB site to judge whether it was appropriate for my pre-teen. (It's no longer there) She had watched through all of the Flipper (Jessica Alba version) episodes on Hulu and though she hadn't done a lot of surfing and we…

When I saw the figure that 2500 people turned out to bear witness, I thought about why and in the pre-television age, when the only way to see what actually happened was to have been there, I don't know whether I would have gone or not.

I've heard the sound in the top video a couple of times, since moving to the Midwest. My house is just over the crest of a hill, so prior to the previous post, I thought it was upper level winds, but the winds have been blowing since the beginning of time and though the internet may be helping to spread the word, the…

Another takeaway from the SpoilerTV post seems to be the surprise that Haven won't be back until the fall. It's not the worst thing on television and it's a fun piece of candy, but I thought it was really helped by being a summer series and was looking forward to the start.

Between "Blossom" writing about it in a book and the Time cover, a few bloggers decided it sounded icky and found that disparagement would garner pageviews.

We let both our children self-wean. My daughter went longer than my son, but by the time they were finished, it was mostly at night before falling asleep.

As far as I know or have seen, those who practice "attachment parenting" or who let their children "self-wean" nurse as a supplemental. The toddlers do get solid food at meals.

Good effort, but there's a lot of cast members to go.

Kids say the darndest things.