Come off it. Way more civilians have died in the Iraq war and following insurgencies than under Hussein.

When Jezebel and WaPo compete to see who can craft the stupider headlines...

The tech industry is essentially a union-free industry (as is the auto industry outside its traditional heartland).

I think it's police unions preventing higher ups from canning shitty cops.

Yay police unions and second (third, fourth) chances for bad apples.

Yes, she was.

The baby didn't graduate shit. It's a sack of flesh and tears. Kids shouldn't be allowed at important events until they've bar/bat mitzvahed.

It's fairly easy in Manhattan.

I would rather just not have the baby around, personally.

Leaving aside this particular situation, what's the point of a "nature intended" argument? Nature "intended" us to wander around naked taking shits in the forest and foraging for berries with our bare hands. We are in a state fairly far removed from nature at this point.

It is not inappropriate or lewd. Context-based, it can be rude. A bride might not want you whipping your tits out in the front row while she's reciting her vows.

I am talking about the ceremony, not the reception. I hope children and babies are not running around during the ceremony while a couple are trying to vow their love for one another.

A young baby is necessarily going to make a fuss. That's what they do.

You raise a good point. Americans have made their grad ceremonies as classless as the rest of their society. Knock yourselves out, I guess, but in a place that still respects formality and tradition this would be rude.

Young babies routinely scream. It might not have been screaming in this photo, but it surely screamed sometime during the ceremony.

#normalizesitters

The baby is not going to "miss" her graduation — it won't even remember the graduation. And it's a massive distraction to have a screaming (leaving aside the eating) baby while a bunch of other people are trying to focus on the ceremony. Get someone to take the baby for the hour and then take it to the after ceremony…

Eating afterward is a lot different from eating during. It's okay to eat a wedding reception, it is totally not cool to munch during a wedding ceremony.

How about a sitter? Is that so hard? I was a baby when my mom graduated high school and a sitter looked after me.

You want a sitter, rather than to have someone bring a screaming, hungry baby to an event that centers on hundreds of students, not just this one.