And again, I'm not really speaking specifically about this case, and I've said that since we don't know all the facts I can't speak specifically about it. Of course the mother's attorney says the judge is wrong; isn't that a standard response to a lost case? I haven't even come out and said the judge is right here.…

Ouch.

They are awesome.

That seems to be what happens when you indoctrinate a child from an early age, though, from what I've read.

True, but there's perversion and there's perversion. Bob Crane (RIP) was a pervert, but he didn't HURT anyone or victimize children. You couldn't pay me to watch anything Victor de Salva has anything to do with.

It makes me sad, too, because I can rarely recall laughin as hard at a movie as I did at SLEEPER. The bit where he's trying to get the hang of the jetpack thing? Oh, man.

I completely agree.

It literally hurts to see pictures of her. All I can think, every time, is "You poor child. You poor, poor child."

I agree that if he was consistently high to the point of being unable to function around his kids he shouldn't be allowed to keep them unsupervised. But there is zero evidence that is the case here; in fact the evidence is strongly against it, considering that the mother was allowed to present her case in court and…

Either you believe that a drug trafficking charge says something about the safety of the home this man can provide for his children or you don't. Until the children are actually harmed, the issue is theoretical.

Curious: Does "You shouldn't be addicted to anything if you have children around" apply equally to caffeine (which is more addictive than heroin—yes, it is, look it up) or cigarettes, or sugar? Should overeaters have their children taken away for being addicted to food, since certain foods can produce physical…

A) Perhaps there is more stigma in custody battles; I can't speak to that. But since I wasn't talking specifically about custody battles, but about society in general where the number of people who take antidepressants is huge and they're advertised on TV, I think there's not so much of a stigma. Certainly there's…

What argument is that? The argument that functional addicts exist? The argument that addiction is not an automatic evil and does not automatically make a person bad? Or the argument that if we allowed doctors to manage addictions for their patients less people would die?

Thank you so much for this (though I disagree that the story has a strong slant in that direction). I am so tired of the automatic drug user=evil bad person attitude. There are many, many functional drug users/addicts in our society; people who work hard, participate in society, pay taxes, raise children, etc., and no…

Screw the Pack-n-Play, get a SWING. The swing was my savior. Princess used to wail when I even took her near the playpen, but she'd happily sit in the swing for ages watching Sesame Street or Baby Mozart or whatever.

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Lol, I do it that way too, for the same reason!

Um...why in the world should we not donate our money in such a way as to support our morals and/or beliefs? How is that wrong?

I agree. I don't like the woman, but I honestly believe this is what the Komen board wanted, and they hired her to be the bulldog/take the fall. I believe all parties were upfront about it and agreed to all of this from the start; it gave the Komen people a way out of their association with PP and it gave Handel…

Huh?