Sanford Journal, not Stanford.

I was going with Kipling but yeah, same idea.

Thank you for those words. I know it on a conscious level but it's easy to get lost in the moment.

But that might be the only time she gets with Emily that day and if he takes her to school, she won't see her kid.

I need to tattoo these words into my forearm and check them every so often. My husband knocked off at noon on opening day of baseball season to watch a couple games. He left our daughter at day care. I told him then that I wished I could do something like that without being guilt-ridden. I can't. If I'm not at…

Right? Please don't make me come out in favor of Texas politics. It makes me uncomfortable.

She's from my neck of the woods. Between her and Patrick McHenry and John Edwards, NC can't be proud.

Hearted (can't believe you weren't already, but anyway). I guess Virginia Foxx just thinks you shouldn't be irresponsible enough to be raped or stupid enough to not carry to term. I wish women were as smart as she is.

I like when my doctors are untrained to perform a legal medical procedure. Best medical system in the world, right?

Not likely to happen. I can't imagine why any woman would wash inside her vagina...unless she'd been raped, maybe.

Man, I hate when I'm in the shower and washing my crotch and I bruise my cervix. You know, the tissue that's a couple inches inside me? That doesn't come in direct contact with anything that's NOT inserted in my vagina? Happens all the time.

I wonder if Robin Quivers is pleased or horrified to hear that Courtney Love wants to do what she just did. Crazy shit.

Well said. Well said, indeed.

Is it me or does Kate look like Jennifer Garner in the picture?

Dr. Nancy Minshew, the director of the NIH project on autism at Pitt, spoke at a conference I attended in March and said it was. It was one of the few instances were the cause of autism was clear and thus preventable.

You know the one that devastated me? Hedwig.

Before rubella vaccinations were commonplace, women who contracted it during pregnancy did have autistic children. It was a clear cause-effect relationship that vaccination has pretty much eradicated. The idea that the MMR vaccine causes autism is specious, as we know, but rubella did cause autism back in the day.

I always figured it was the other way around: if you want to be on a reality show, odds are that you're pretty interested in attention that no regular interaction could satisfy.

And political objections aside, it's the wedding of two people that most of us will never meet in any meaningful way, if at all. I wish them well but goodness. Who cares that much about a wedding of someone they don't know?

It all depends where you are. I'm originally from a sparsely-populated rural state and I promise there are lots of people like you're describing, who are content to accept handouts. I'm related to some. And I also promise they're 98% white.