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• Is Your Daughter a Princess?

  My daughter informed me a few weeks ago that she's Princess Pooty Pants. For those of you not familiar with this member of the Disney hoochie patrol, she's never made it on screen. She's been banished to the back of the kitchen. Where Cinderella would be if she had bad gas and butt as big as her wicked stepsister. Yes, the big girls are always the baddies in kids movies. Which is why I've had a harder time than some moms accepting the princesses into our lives. But unlike my mother, who refuses to buy my daughter anything royal on principle (although somehow Tinkerbell has flitted through by batting her tiny wings), I've swallowed my own demons in favor of making my daughter happy Read More... Posted Oct 11 2008, 11:29 AM by JeanneSager with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: barbie, princesses, New York, gas, fairy tales, Beauty and The Beast, Belle, Jeanne Sager, tractor, Disney Princess, dairy princess

• Terrorists Gas American Children

  The room contained babies and children who were being cared for while their parents prayed. Someone opened the window and sprayed a "chemical irritant" through it. In the words of someone who was there: "Panicked mothers ran for their babies, crying for their children so they could flee from the gas that was burning their eyes and throats and lungs . . . . [One mother] tells me that her daughters slept with her last night, the little one in her arms and sobbing throughout the night." One ten-year-old girl was sprayed directly in the face by a man outside the basement window. Just the latest from Iraq? No, this happened last weekend, in Dayton, Ohio. Read More... Posted Sep 30 2008, 11:15 AM by Miriam Axel-Lute with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: violence, islam, John McCain, gas, terrorism, muslims, obsession, religious freedom, Clarion Fund, DailyKos, Iraqi refugees, chemical attacks, hate crimes, Dayton

• When Granite Attacks

  Those shiny granite countertops in your kitchen may be emitting harmful radiation, as well as radon, a radioactive gas. Yes, you read that correctly. According to a piece in today's New York Times, "there have been…reports of 'hot' or potentially hazardous countertops" in recent years. Granite countertops have become extremely popular in homes across the country. Read More... Posted Jul 24 2008, 04:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: health, Cancer, dangerous, new york times, NY Times, kitchen, home, House, NYTimes, radiation, gas, Brett Singer, radon gas, living room, geiger counter, granite, radon, health risk

• What a Relief: School Did Not Ban Farting

  Despite media reports, the principal of Camden-Rockport Middle School has clarified that the school did not ban farting in class. Good thing, because libertarians would have had a field day with that one. But it is kind of funny that the story spread faster than a noxious gas filling a room, even reaching the WSJ online and other media outlets. The culprits who dealt the news item in the school newspaper have been identified, though they could not be named because of school confidentiality.  Student journalists filing for the school papper erroneously reported that the intentional farting... Read More... Posted Feb 08 2008, 01:33 PM by Kelly Mills with | with no comments Filed under: education, school, discipline, middle school, rules, behavior problems, preteens, bans, farting, gas, false reports, libertarians