My rule is that if the kids want to watch something I loathe (hey there, Dora the Explorer), I have my iPod in. I love them, but I seriously can't stand the sing-yelling.

Yeah, from what I know, her kidneys are barely functional. They were fine before this, but now they are wrecked. She's also had to get her gallbladder removed from all the damage she's done to it, and she developed a heart murmur. It's really not good.

I do have to say, Applebee's wins for best desserts. Their blondie brownie with the ice cream is amazing!

That's cute! I love cute grandpas!

I know that feeling all too well. My sister-in-law is terribly ill from anorexia and also has T1 diabetes. She went to a fancy-shmancy treatment center in the Pacific Northwest and came back looking great. Unfortunately she came back to the same judgmental mother, who immediately laid out all the fashion tabloids and…

At least the parents of spoilt children past didn't write think pieces about it. The think pieces bother me way more than the children.

What is wrong with people? Seriously, put another movie on. The kids will live. My eldest was going through a massive Pocahontas phase where all he wanted to do during his TV time was watch Pocahontas and its half-assed sequel. We put on Hercules instead, to save our sanity. He survived.

I think you may be right. Somehow I think they're all clues a la National Treasure.

I love L&O UK so much, especially since they do focus more on the Crown Prosecutors.

My grandparent's neighbors had a girl who waited until marriage. That night her husband (who came off as a nice, quiet guy) beat the ever-lasting piss out of her, saying that she was 'his' now. Not good at all.

Yeah, the only thing about Santeria that is weird is walking by a church of Santeria at night (there was one by CCNY when I briefly went there) and hearing the animals sacrificed. Goats are some loud mo'fo's.

'Baba Yaga family' is making me laugh too hard.

I love the "Ask a Slave" videos.

I love "The Golden Era of Soup".

Especially since the essay portion is usually about something semi-controversial. Ours was on the Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890 (which I really didn't learn about in-depth until college).

I was a docent at a historical site when I was a teenager. The absolute bane of my existence are people who read books written by pundits who try to re-write history. I'm sorry, random Old Dude, but Glenn Beck has a very selective narrative of 18th century United States.

More importantly, what did the graffiti say? I want it to say something like "you're next" or "the time has come".

Desert-driving, car-fixing guy is my favorite.

Yeah I would love to see her hair up in this. She has a long, graceful neck and could pull off a bold updo.

That's awful - I hope at least her daughter got a good sex education in school, otherwise that is asking for trouble.