they went to the shelter to back up their fabricated claims of abuse, in the interests of preventing men from having access to the kids post-divorce ( Read more... )

So a friend of mine says to me and a number of other people, "Barbara Kay is doing a lecture! Let's go crash it and stare at her in stony silence!" See, Barbara Kay is a woman seething with internalized misogyny, who writes about "gender issues" for a notoriously conservative paper (the National Post) and gets lauded by mens' organizations for all ( Read more... )

Connor self-weaned two days ago. He'd been very erratic with nursing for a couple weeks, and didn't nurse for two days, then tried to do it. But he wasn't doing it properly, so I said, "If you want to nurse, you have to do it right ( Read more... )

Gax is an alien character that's part of the Wondermark comic, and occasionally he does Q&As where you can submit questions and he'll answer. I submitted a question a few months ago, and today it got answered.

For those who don't like clicking links, my question in bold, and Gax's answer in plain text:
Dear Gax ( Read more... )

The Doggie Gaga Project: dogs dressed up like Lady Gaga.

How to make boypants from stretchy fabric. Includes free downloadable pattern, and instructions for other types of underthings too.

An Overview of Abortion in the United States: slides about who has them, why, when, and how. Great resource.

Let's talk about rape culture, specificially rape ( Read more... )

The past five days have been Tear Central around here, and that's really unusual for me. It takes a hell of a lot to make me cry, and I resist it with every cell in my body. So to have four separate bawling sessions over the past five days is extremely out of the ordinary ( Read more... )

I can only deal with so much stupid in one day. When it's a day that I'm already dealing with stress, my tolerance for stupid drops even further. Usually I try to be kinder when clue-by-fouring people, but if I've already hit my limit, it's going straight to the snark ( Read more... )

Via LJ Idol, a post with a realistic view of motherhood that I think a lot of us can empathize with.

( Four pictures of various amusing fail: parenting edition. )

Do you know where _doesn’t_ have free wireless Internet? I totally do, and here it is: Sick Kids Hospital. See, I know this because right now as I'm typing this it’s 8:35 AM, and I’m typing this into a text editing program, because I can’t post it to the interbutts, because... yeah... I’m at Sick Kids! And there’s no free wireless!

( Cut for some length. This starts off with me talking about the visit and then veered into stream-of-consciousness rambling about all different things as I got more and more tired. You’ve been warned. )