October 2006 Archives

To the good people of Piedmont Avenue:

• Yes, I've tried to put a hat on my baby.
• The hat keeps slipping off.
• No, if I pull it down so it's on more tightly, it covers her eyes. She HATES that.
• Seriously. YOU want to hear the screams?
• I'm sure she's warm enough anyway.
• Thank you for your concern.

Seriously, does it really take a village?

Should not require pulling over the baby's head when dressing the baby. Snap-up outfits are so much better.

After all, the baby has already had the experience of cramming its head through a too-narrow opening that doesn't stretch easily — why make them go through it again?*

*and if the baby was born via Caesarian, then they really won't like it.

'http://www.heraldstandard.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17336307&BRD=2280&PAG=461&dept_id=480247&rfi=6
'>Case in point:

LEVITTOWN - Embattled U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum said America has avoided a second terrorist attack for five years because the "Eye of Mordor" has instead been drawn to Iraq.

Santorum used the analogy from one of his favorite books, J.R.R. Tolkien's 1950s fantasy classic, "Lord of the Rings," to put an increasingly unpopular war in Iraq into terms any school kid could easily understand.

"As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else," Santorum said, describing the tool the evil Lord Sauron used in search of the magical ring that would consolidate his power over Middle-earth.

"It's being drawn to Iraq and it's not being drawn to the U.S.," he continued. "You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don't want the Eye to come back here to the United States."

And the Ring? It's Senator Santorum's ANUS.