I agree with you. And yet... when your child hasn’t slept for more than a couple of hours for WEEKS at a time, and you’re so exhausted you can’t see properly or walk in a straight line, yeah, there can be times where even though you love that little baby more then anything you just Can Not Deal. We did sleep training…

A good friend of mine had a baby who, no matter how they tried to “train” him out of it, only slept during the day, and even then only in shifts. He would not sleep at night. She was probably actually insane with exhaustion. He grew out of it but it was a tough first months for her and her husband. She of course had a…

I think you get to have opinions on vaccinations considering that affects everyone.

What takes real guts it to do what works for you, your baby, and your family, while politely ignoring the inevitable criticism, because no matter what you choose, someone will tell you that you are doing it wrong.

I just did what was easiest with my kids. My first one slept like crazy. You had to bounce her just right to a particular Regina Spektor song (no substitutes) for a couple minutes, but once she was out, that was it for the night. In her own bed and starting at four months - her own room! Gasp! My second one was…

I've seen plenty of news stories about this, but I have to wonder, how much water is Nestle really using compared to all the other industries with lots of water usage? The entire food industry wastes water like you wouldn't believe, yet we're only angry at Nestle because their final product *looks* like water, unlike…

No, you. Pinkham was stating a simple fact. Corporations have one purpose: to make money. They're amoral. When they do nice things, it's for PR, which enhances profit.

Pray, dear friend, you never need know what that feels like.

I was in a band and on tour in the early 00’s. As we were leaving the western edge of Pennsylvania on our way to Dayton Ohio we gassed up at a station that had a hybrid Pizza Hut / KFC / and Blimpies food processing closet. Being a vegetarian roughly 5 hours from home I was overjoyed that the Blimpies, 1/3 of this…

As a criminal defense lawyer in the US, I’m fascinated (and terrified) by the notion of being able to appeal a Not Guilty verdict.

We have provinces here, not states. :P But I'm glad this is going to appeal.

I can't wait for someone to refuse to sell tampons to unmarried women because penetration.

when you vote GOP, this is what you're voting for.

Found this floating around the liberal Indiana twittersphere the other day:

LOL at "sighing audibly." Yes it's truly very annoying when people demand that you treat others with dignity and respect and force you, as a public servant, to answer for your fuckheadedness. Being a rich, Christian white man in power is SO HARD GUYZ.

So incredibly proud of all the backlash occurring. Gives me a twinge of hope for America.

You know, I see no reason why Indiana's behavior in the past couple of weeks should not result in us just razing it to the ground and starting over.

Even if she did supposedly (and probably ludicrously) abort her pregnancy... maybe, just maybe, if abortion services were more readily available and accessible, people wouldn't wait till such desperate goddamn times, or use desperate measures.

Feticide laws were written to actually protect pregnant women. If you do something to harm a pregnant woman and she miscarries, you get a harsher sentence. Or if you murder a pregnant woman, you get a harsher sentence. Using them against the pregnant women themselves is just sickening to me. I never thought we should…

I just can't do this today. My heart hurts for these women who are prosecuted for miscarriages. As someone with a reproductive illness, I know miscarriage is highly likely to be in my future, assuming I get pregnant at all...As a white woman, I assume I probably won't have to deal with this (which is bullshit in…