According to ABC News, the Boy Scouts of America are barring overweight VOLUNTEER parents from engaging in "high-risk" trips such as camping, and forcing them to have physicals before going on trips lasting longer than 72 hours. While I understand that parents may not want an overweight parent being the sole guardian of their child on a climbing ( Read more... )

 CNN posted an article this week entitled "Why I didn't Want a Girl" via Parenting magazine. Columnist Amy Wilson reflects on how her two boys, and her anxiety towards expecting a daughter. "Even before I had sons, I worried about having a daughter. I could handle boys, with their cut-and-dried needs, but girls were so much more complicated. Girls ( Read more... )

 Jo-Ann fabrics is refusing to sell the March/April issue of Quilter's Home because of its content. Now, if you thought of quilts as heavy, moth-laden works that are featured in Pennsylvania bed-and-breakfasts, you're partially wrong. Quilts can also be works of contemporary art too. In a segment called "Shocking Quilts", several "controversial" ( Read more... )

 The following are posts from Adam Rightmann, a conservative minister and outspoken blogger:

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What news story have you heard or read lately that made you really angry? What about one that made you really happy?

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There were three stories this week that really pissed me off. One was featured in Jezebel, the other in The New Yorker, and the last in The New York Times. 
The story in Jezebel was about how legislators want to ( Read more... )

 Ugh, I got like no sleep last night. Firstly, I went to bed at like 8:30 because there was nothing to do and whatnot. Then, it was like two million degrees in the bedroom which weird because it was freezing in the kitchen and living room and there is only one thermostat in the house (which said it was 68). So I got like weird, fragmented sleep and ( Read more... )

So I am finally 21. Not that it really matters since I currently can't drink right now and I have drank for quite some time. All in all it was a good birthday. Rich took me out to Houston's and we had a huge lunch. Then I wanted to take a nap (this is what you do when you're pregnant), so I did. Then calling my family. Then ice cream cake and ( Read more... )