My mom is an architect. She hates escalators. Apparently they are really quite dangerous, despite the fact that more people freak out about elevators, which very rarely injure or kill anyone.

You're not grey to me!

I sat behind a man and his 7-ish year old son at a screening of "Saving Private Ryan." (Yes, I'm an Old.). Boy was visibly traumatized after Normandy Beach scene at beginning. Man turns to cowering son and tells him "Man up, Soldier" and turns back to screen.

We chose a name for our first son that was exactly as you describe — chosen because it has a special meaning for us, but unranked in SS database ever. It's a real name, not a made-up one: it's a not-terribly-unusual-in-its-country-of-origin foreign name, so it's not that uncommon worldwide, but we've never met…

Bullshit. The flu vaccine has been given to millions of pregnant women over the course of literally decades with no reported adverse effects on fetus or woman. In contrast, the very real dangers of the flu to both fetuses and pregnant women are well documented. http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/va…

A good friend of mine had the flu shot when pregnant. Her husband did not have it. Their son was born perfectly healthy and two weeks after they took him home, his father contracted the flu. So did the baby. Her husband recovered but their son did not. Newborns die of flu. Anyone who is going to be in contact with one…

My 13-month old has the most insanely long eyelashes, random strangers seriously comment on them on the street. Mine, on the other hand, are essentially nonexistent. UNFAIR!!!!!!

They totally get used to it. I nurse my 13-month old in his daycare classroom (it's in my office building) at lunchtime and there are literally other babies crawling all over us and all kinds of noise and commotion. He's just immune to it at this point, especially since we've been doing it since he was 3 months old…

I was the same way, but month 4 was magic. I was wearing a shield AND those plastic cups 24/7 to keep my poor raw nipples from EVER touching my clothing. I thought it would last forever, and then right at the beginning of month 4 it just stopped. No more pain. I hope the same for you!

Her baby is close to a year old.* So she's out of the "everything is horrible, painful, awkward, and messy" stage of BFing (which for me lasted, oh, nearly four months) and into the "sweet, easy, and leak-less" stage. *I know this because my baby is also a year old and sometimes I fantasize that he will meet her baby…

Check out www.fatbraintoys.com. LOTS of options there. You can sort by age, interest, etc.

Kristen Bell is so awesome. "I'm gonna get both, because I LOVE candy."

Have you seen her in "Winter's Bone?" She's pretty amazing in that.

Or her assistants to commit fraud? I don't get why this is even a part of this case.

Writing in cursive is much faster. Thus, it used to be a really useful skill for notetaking and other tasks that required words to get put on paper quickly. Now that most "words-getting-put-on-'paper'" tasks are done via keyboards, cursive isn't more useful than printing.

Yeah — I think Maine's exemption exists solely to allow LL Bean to be open 24/7/365.

Grocery stores are exempted here. But ours is open only until 10 AM, so at least workers can get home in time to have a nice meal with their families. (I also hope they are staffed by mostly or entirely people who volunteers).

New England for the win.

Yeah, that's probably true — I wasn't totally clear on the mechanics but I knew that there is basically no way they can get permission.