@msmoneypenny: Funny that.

@msmoneypenny: Your examples are exactly what I was talking about- you have to start at the local level, small, finding lots of women to run, making it normal for girls to think running for office could be normal for them.

I think part of the problem is that the left keeps thinking about this as though it was like creating a boy band. You can't just build the perfect candidate from scratch. They have to be personable and charismatic, something Palin had before she was "cultivated" by the right.

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This has nothing to do with the health of the mother. Society owns the health of the baby until it is born, when everyone turns the other way.

This happened with the Green River serial killer, too. He didn't get the death penalty because he said he would reveal the burial spots of more victims in exchange for a life sentence (which he has done as promised).

When I was in my 20's, I would have said something about how she should embrace aging and all that. But now, as I creep up on 40, I understand something different.

@agog: Yeah, that hit me wrong, too.

@Penny: Mothers is the only thing they can pin to explain whey they aren't just "View, take 2". Otherwise they offer nothing new. Just a tired old marketing gimmic they will probably drop eventually.

@Ashaleeeee: It does suck. The part that sucks the most is that everyone is just trying to get out of being fair to women of all sports, including both cheer and volleyball. Really sucks.

@Ashaleeeee: I think it is primarily that in this specific case, if cheerleading is named a sport, then a well-established female dominated sport (volleyball) would be eliminated. If you read through some of the comments even here, cheerleading is not widely respected as empowering for women, so for cheerleading to…

@Ashaleeeee: Title IX requires that schools offer the same number of athletic opportunities to men and women. So if there are 10 spots on a men's team, there need to be 10 spots on a women's team. But teams cost money. This university wanted to call cheerleading a sport, saying they had the required number of…

@SkipToMyLou: Oh yes- I read that one, too!

@BlondeGrlz: That's cool! I'm not punditmom, which she figured out, but I do have a blog. It is a very locally-oriented blog, so I didn't list it. And yes, Mom-101 should be on the list.

"Mommy bloggers" was clearly used here as an insult. ONE woman who happens to be a mother wrote a snotty post about other women not having children. She was wrong and her post was stupid. But one snotty post does not equal "mommy bloggers."

@eg.5: Wow- good eye.

It is a little disturbing that all the conversations about this marriage are about what Levi and Sarah are deciding. Bristol has a say in this, too. Don't erase her.

@hottotrot: @piratabeata: I never saw a Magic Eye thing either. My problem is that my eyes don't communicate, or something like that- the eye doctor explained it to me. I have 20-20 vision, but 3-D stuff is just never going to work for me. I always felt left out with those stupid stupid Magic Eye things.

@Cheese Addict: I don't say it in salmon, but everyone I know does pronounce the L in almond.

Last month, I returned two successive containers of buttermilk to the store because they were sour, then googled it and discovered it is supposed to be sour.