Archive for the Parents Category


Nutzis on the Loose!

I knew deep down the other day that my off-hand comment about peanut allergies and other designer suburban diseases in my post about bad journalism would elicit a response. Specifically, I knew that the moveon.org of the nut hunters would be out scanning the internet for heathen words like mine, which would threaten not only [...]

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A sickening double standard

When women kill their babies, they are merely mentally ill. But when a man kills his children, he does it out of spite. To be clear: mothers do kill. In fact, of all children killed by a parent, half are killed by their mothers. But the difference is that men, as shown by the examples [...]

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The inmates are running the asylum

A 12-year old girl hasn’t yet hit puberty, but because she’s threatening to hold her breath till she turns blue, her mother and doctors will give her whatever she asks for. In this case, a sex change. The girl is one of the youngest patients in Australia granted permission to begin a sex swap. The [...]

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This book is winging its way to me

I used to be strongly anti-child. Mr. Right and I were happy to be DINKS. My mother was from a huge family (really, whatever number you’re imagining, her family was bigger than that), and so chose to have only one child. Both my parents are dead now, so I have no familial pressure to provide [...]

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Mother, Mother

It’s been fifteen years since my mother succumbed to lung cancer. Cigarettes were her vice. Two and a half packs a day for thirty years. When she died she was just 47 lbs. Everyone loved my mother. She was a perfect angel to all who knew her. Kind, benevolent, trustworthy – she was a girl [...]

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Twos and Sevens