Yep, which is why we need to make it illegal, just like it's illegal to hit an adult.

I wish my state had that rule too. I work with children with disabilities, and I am horrified that there's no para on many of the buses, even the ones with violent kids. Those drivers have the hardest job in the school system. There's no guarantee that a para or even a highly trained special ed teacher would not hit a…

Which was not okay either. It's assault to hit an adult. It should also be assault to hit a child — who is much smaller and has far less control in any situation.

Look into the science on spanking. There's a remarkable 93% agreement in the large body of research (hundreds of studies done in dozens of countries by thousands of experts in several fields of study) that spanking not only does not work, it in fact it harms children, and the effects are cumulative. It causes…

Or a pageant response.

My brother-in-law posted "Brrrrr..." as his FB status today. He lives in Houston, where it was 30 degrees. Fuck him.

Are you in a red state?

Exactly what I have been wondering.

Thanks for giving me exactly what to say when my mom brings this up and condemns the poor husband.

What, you expect us to use logic? This is 'Murica, we don't need no stinkin' logic.

Well, that ruined my day. After the rape insurance law we now have in Michigan, I shouldn't be surprised, but I still am. Fuck.

Is this even a good way to incubate a fetus had it not been oxygen deprived? Does anyone know what the success rate is for this kind of process? Seems like last time a story like this made the news (and the woman was months further along!) the child did not survive after birth.

Oh this one so much. My friends who are more financially established now and who were able to travel more in college, etc. often don't comprehend how much their families helped this happen. While their parents may not have been rich, not having to pay for medical bills, car insurance, school books, and cell bills…

You wouldn't have! Probably one of the more normal checkouts they'd have that day.

If only our little lady brains could work out that science. Or if we cook the menfolk enough nourishing meals and provide enough inspiring sex (the religiously married kind, of course!), maybe they will make one for us.

Either way, God smote you with some affliction that you OBVIOUSLY deserve, and you should have to carry that burden yourself. DUH. (Even if in my case that burden of being born with a weird uterus costs me $1,200 plus a year because I have to take the expensive whore pills.) Or at least that's what my dad would say…

You have no idea how tempting that is. I only live 30 minutes from the border. I'll even watch Red Green. Please take me in, Canada!

In just one little corner, a library is lending them out. The New York Times covered it. I thought it was a terrific idea.

I feel better now — I've done the same thing whenever I've come across a catalog at my mom's house! I was just at the Houston store with my sister (nowhere near the grandeur of NYC or Chicago, I'm sure), and we totally geeked out. She has a new baby, and she did buy her the puberty books (several years in advance, of…