That’s cool and all, but if you aren’t a Nielsen household or don’t have DirectTV (which is rolling out a set-top-box Nielsen initiative to expand audience sample sizes), it won’t have any affect on the traditionally reported TV ratings.

But he doesn’t live in reality. He will instead say something like, “My ratings were much higher than Hillary’s would have been.”

Unless you happen to have a Nielsen box it really doesn’t matter when/if you watch it as far as ratings go. I do agree with you that low ratings will drive him in to a frothy mouthed 3am tweet storm of epic proportions.

Unless you’re a Nielsen (however it’s spelled) home, I don’t think it matters if you watch or not. I mean, I’m not tuning in because I don’t hate myself enough to do that, but if you tune in to point & laugh, I don’t think it will matter.

Yeah, they definitely are getting tossed around in a crappy way. Springsteen’s band started tweeting criticism of them.... I definitely get the impression that they really just got turned into a political pawn, and lost out of a chunk of money.

Somehow, 4% of people manage to have no opinion.

I don’t knit, but sometimes I nitpick.

It is very refreshing to see someone call out the bullshit of closing down all the nurseries and forcing the baby to room-in with you the whole time. When I had my son in 2014, I went into labour at 8pm but wasn’t admitted to the hospital until 1 pm the next day. By the time I had him at 10 pm, I had been awake for…

Adoption is extremely difficult, tedious and expensive. You have to fullfill certain criteria (not too young, not too old, married, healthy, unable to have children, affluent, child-proof house etc) to get on a several-year-long waiting list. I know people who went for several rounds of IVF because it was cheaper and…

You wouldn’t leave any other person who just went through surgery and/or is on heavy meds alone with a baby. Why does suddenly everybody think it’s totally okay if that person is the mother?

I had to be in another room than my mother because I was an emergency c-section (but otherwise healthy) and my mother was still a loopy mess from the anaesthesia and other medication. She wasn’t allowed to be alone with me for liability reasons. Even the next day she was still a bit shaky and almost fell while she was…

Apparently, she was treated well by her abductor/ imposter mother.. she even doesnt think her mother should be branded a felon after kidnapping her as an infant. Im sure her birth family doesnt feel that way though lol  http://nypost.com/2017/01/14/woman-stolen-at-birth-kidnapper-mom-is-no-felon/

I think we really need to work on the messages we send to childless women. Women look at me with pity, men act like I ought to be euthanized because what’s the point of a woman who isn’t young anymore but no one’s mother, and yet both are routinely shocked and appalled at the effort I’ve put into it. This needs to…

I can remember in the 70's and even 80's going to the hospital to visit someone and then before we left, going to the maternity ward to see the new babies. Like, we didn’t KNOW any of these babies, and were gawking at them like they were in a zoo. It was just something people did, back then - just strolling on and…

My son was born with hair at least 2 inches long. There’s even an old wives tale about having more heartburn if you have a baby with lots of hair. It’s fairly common.

All I can think of is the joke where twins are relinquished at birth and adopted internationally by separate families - one in Central America, one in the Middle East. The first boy is named Juan, and the second is named Ahmal. After many years, they are reunited, and they want to meet their birth family too.…

I think they’ll have to go slowly and respect that the daughter’s feelings, about her biological family and the woman who raised her, will be complex and difficult to navigate. It would be easy for the bio parents to expect a big, happy reunion and an instant parent-child relationship with their daughter, but if so,…

First baby “don’t touch him” second baby, maybe for a minute so I can sleep...third baby “take her as long as you can so I can sleep as long as possible before I go home!”

You mean the district filled with thriving shopping malls that have mainly black people dropping crazy stacks on Mac, Sephora, designer clothing and shoes?? I was raised there, moved to California fifteen years ago and on a recent visit back home was absolutely FLOORED at the display of wealth and culture that I…

Yeah - she’s all like “Come at me, birch!”