Just a quick word of thanks to our friends at baristanet.com. Baristanet.com is recognized as the #1 Placeblog in America and is an acknowledged leader in new media targeted at local communities. This week, the folks at baristanet.com landed on our blog and . . . → Read More: They like us, they really really like us.

In my post titled “Barack Obama Uses Amazing Hand Lotion”, I posed the question:

2008 will be my first election, and I feel that it will be an election filled with firsts. The contrast in the diversity between the Democratic candidates and the . . . → Read More: Quick Update On The Bias Poll

I thought Eileen and I handled oursevles pretty well. It was late last night and Scout, nose buried in facebook, blurts out, “This is the best idea!” We were intrigued but cautious. Often a teenager’s . . . → Read More: Scout wants to be a bartender…

Joan, After looking at the picture itself, it seems clear that the question “is this a good idea” is not actually for you and me to decide at all. No, it seems that . . . → Read More: Re: Cheney Photographed with Grandson Samuel

It won’t surprise you to hear that I had something to say the day Mary Cheney gave birth. It was posted late last night on the front page of The Huffington Post and I hope you’ll check . . . → Read More: “It’s a boy! says Mary Cheney and Heather Poe

Two important things you need to know about our family. (1) We like to eat. As a subset of that, we like to cook, we like to feed people. (2) We are unapologetic about our . . . → Read More: Season Finales…

Barack Obama spoke at a fundraiser at my neighbor’s house last week, and my other mother decided that she had already seen enough of him in the . . . → Read More: Barack Obama Uses Amazing Hand Lotion

Scout posed her question a few weeks back, well before we had the opportunity to see Senator Obama speak. Which bias do you think will be a bigger challenge when voters find themselves in the . . . → Read More: Hillary needs a good hand lotion

It’s been really interesting reading all of the responses to my blog entries on The Huffington Post. One, in particular, stood out to me.

The following in an excerpt from a comment on my . . . → Read More: Re: “Knowing Your Daughter Doesn’t Have HPV…Priceless” on The Huffington Post

I remember sitting in Health Class with Ms. P for the lesson on abstinence. “Today class, we are going to talk about the safest option out there- abstinence.” Fireworks went off . . . → Read More: Knowing your daughter doesn’t have HPV?…PRICELESS.

My piece the other day What Jerry Falwell Taught Me was picked up yesterday by the Huffington Post and spent the day on its front page. Hope you’ll visit www.huffingtonpost.com and take a look at . . . → Read More: More on Falwell…

In a fierce battle on May 17th, 2007 at apx 2:00pm Eastern Standard Time, I kicked my mother’s butt 10 to 3.

Dear Mom, Maybe if you were actually good at the sport, you woulnd’t be so critical of it’s value. Sincerely, Scout

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After a few days of serious news topics, it felt right to turn my attention to “sports”. I came across a news piece that fit the bill. Jaime Langridge beat out 300 other schnooks to . . . → Read More: The USA “Rock Paper Scissors” National Championship

It has come to our attention (in these early blog stages) that many of our visitors are directed to our site through google searches for “clowns” and “clown cars.”

C’mon people, . . . → Read More: CLOWNS!

My partner just emailed me. Jerry Falwell died, she said. Such a rush of emotion. And then questions. Does he have a number 2? Who will succeed him? But Scout asked the best question. I . . . → Read More: What Jerry Falwell taught me..

Friday’s New York Post reported that the Motion Picture Academy of America is reserving the right to give an R rating to a film that ‘glamorizes’ smoking. . . . → Read More: Butt Out

Joan, you are almost right. You are correct in your assumption that everyone has at least tried a cigarette . . . → Read More: Does Your Pediatrician Know You Smoke?

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Joan and Eileen in East Hampton (near that house Scout wants us to retire to) The first many people heard about our civil union ceremony was . . . → Read More: No longer living in sin. At least not in New Jersey.

In about an hour, my parents, Joan and Eileen, are going to have a Civil Union ceremony. . . . → Read More: My parents are about to get married?

The following is a conversation I find myself having every year around Mother?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s Day:

Acquaintance: Wow Scout, Mother?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s Day is coming . . . → Read More: MotherS’ Day