Well, I am not offended. And I know what you mean. When the questions become more intricate then I will offer more intricate answers and hope by that time her mind and body have grown to a point where her critical thinking skills are sharp enough to make choices. What I will always offer her is honesty.

As a Christian with a toddler who is starting to ask questions, I try to maneuver my beliefs in and around the science and understanding of the world around us. Toddlers can be duped with "guess who" but don't try to bullshit them about the nature of things. She asked me flat out, "Where is God? Did he leave?" the…

18 months. Still a little guy. Fits in 6-12 mos clothes. But healthy and chatty and very fast as he recently took up walking.

If one could offer an archetype for NICU nurses and staff then yes, Blue Lanterns are indeed real heroes. My son Oliver was born at 27 weeks and was 1 lb. "Bili lights" as they call them are just one of hundreds of things these people offer to offer babies hope.

Ooh yeah. How meta

The image of these GIs walking in with the cartoony stuffed cheek full of gum is burned in my head. She is so astonished to meet these "gum chewing americans" like this was a slur pounded in her aryan head.

I have weird fondness for these. I have some still I think. Like the Johnny Cash bio one. But I remember them also making me feel "off". Seeing them now conjures old childhood fears and anxieties. Also I remember being a little offended as a kid by open shirt denim Christ and confused by the sex kitten curves of all…

I understand what you mean. My wife was facing numerous diagnoses (irritable bowel, gurds, ulcers.. stress) you name it. Finally she read about celiac and saw the "brain fog" symptom. Our doctor was like, "Celiac? Ooooookaay" as if we were crazy, and referred us to a lab. She had a biopsy of her intestine wall and…

Ya know.. all being said, whatever stance one takes. I am actually stifling tears.

I admire you efforts in registering/linking an account just to attempt a pot shot at N Americans. Clever.

What's that old Love Line game? Oh yeah, "Germany or Florida?".

Yet you fail to mention his weird boxing face guard. I always imagined it to be really plushy. Maybe it speaks for itself and there is no need to have it be mentioned. God just LOOK at him.

"Man Who Fell to Earth" Rip Torn should come with a warning..

Huh, nice to see this old tourist trap get some attention. It has been noted that it has lost some of its teeth over the years through kitsch and commercialism as well as a minimal budget but as a kid growing up in San Jose and it being a place I passed in our car on a regular basis, it scared the hell out of me. Or…

Green Arrow was created in the forties in response to vigilante/detective gadget hero genre (batman) and was in More Fun comics. This later was merged with DC. This is even addressed in a recent story arc where GA tells Batman something like, "we'll go to the Arrow Cave in the Arrow Jet" and Batman goes.. "Ok, Arrow…

Neighbors.. hm. Hey, Alf existed as a show. My Favorite Martian as well. Formula is often called formula because is consistently works. I accept the existence of this show. I'll take this over reality tv

yeah I have had this conversation with a few people. We cook pork tenderloin where I work at a nice cool 145 inside. It carry over cooks to about 150-55. This i perfectly up to health standards now and american health dept standards are ridiculously paranoid as it is

I suspect the reference to the firewood deforestation thing could be charcoal trading. Very common in African nations and it is devastating. To humans and the forests. But even that is minimal compared to commercial scale logging for large timber.

So, did one of those headstones say, "Hardwood"? *snort*

"but some continued to suck at the slit." too horrifying to even find the dirtiness in that sentence.