Boston-area daycare is the pits, both in terms of availability and price. Those two things are probably related, actually.

Your daycare includes diapers? Ours has them bring them in, plus wipes. And when my son was on milk, we brought that too.

We paid $20k last year for nonprofit (!) daycare for our infant son. Since we’ve moved it’s a 20-30 minute drive to daycare each day, but I’ve been putting off looking for a center closer to home because a) it’ll be an enormous pain in the butt and b) it’ll cost at least $200-400 more per month.

He looks like he’s wearing Shaq’s overcoat.

NEVER. As far as I’m concerned, all the world needs to know is that I found my baby in a cabbage patch behind the local hospital. When he’s older I will tell him that I picked him because he was the cutest, and also because he appeared to have a thriving root system.

This is my problem with social media. Just as my mother now thinks it’s appropriate to post a celebration of the date on which she thinks I conceived her grandchild to Facebook, Kanye apparently has no problem with the world knowing what he likes near his butt. Stop it, Mom. Stop it, Kanye.

My pediatrician friend recently got a mug that says “Your google search is no substitute for my medical degree.” I can only imagine how often she hears that crap.

There’s a whole lot of crazy on Frantzen’s website. As best I can tell, he both hates and loves men and simply hates women.

It also explains what’s wrong with the anti-vaxxers.

God, his tattoos are just the worst. He looks like he let a semi-talented 5-year-old scribble on him with a Sharpie.

Can I suggest finding another psychiatrist? One that supports medication during pregnancy? I was fortunate that mine didn’t even question whether or not I should continue to take my meds during pregnancy, and my OB agreed. Of course there have been no randomized clinical trials of antidepressants in pregnant women,…

Only so no one else would have to!

Would that make Sarah Palin Shelob, the giant man-eating spider?

This level of redaction makes it look like the email literally reads: “NEFARIOUS EVIL PLAN TO SLOWLY POISON POOR PEOPLE OF COLOR WITH VITAL NATURAL RESOURCE.” Actually, maybe that’s what it actually says.

If geneaology has taught me anything, it’s that people everywhere could be terrible. I was walking through the little town of Forres, Scotland, which is adjacent to the even smaller towns where my mom’s family lived for hundreds of years, and stumbled across this:

Yeah, I thought there was no way I could be a descendant of slaveholders, as most of my relatives emigrated in the 20th century. But then I found one branch of Dutch that came over when New York was still New Amsterdam, and yup, they had slaves. Their wills discuss the disbursement of their slaves along with their…

I generally agree, yet at the same time, if my husband were David Bowie, and I found him in bed with a young Mick Jagger... Well. I might be inclined to give him a pass, just once. And then a thorough screening for STDs.

What other beloved celebrities are currently 69? Between Rickman and David Bowie, it’s not been a good week for them :(

Oh, that makes me sad. Is his autobiography a good read?

Just imagine what the poor man’s adolescence must have been like! If anyone deserves a few puns, it’s him.