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Yeah, yeah, maybe we've done the whole "look at these irresponsible mommies who drink!" thing to death, but looking over this (admittedly rather old) post up at Feministing got me to thinking. But what's really telling are the comments to the short post, which mostly quotes a survey that revealed that...

Wouldn't you know it, it's a month and a half too late to buy this and call it my Mother's Day gift to myself, and a week too late to buy it for Father's Day and pretend it's really for my husband. The Carl Mertens wine thermometer clips around a standard bottle and within a minute, you're informed of...

The last time the Today Show ran a segment on mother fuddlers, the blogosphere lit up with heated debates about mixing alcohol with playdates. Personally, I mix my alcohol with gin, but to each her own. This time around , however, all seems quiet. For now. Maybe that's because Today Show guest Stefanie...

I've already fed my infant daughter a pint of Guinness and a shot of vodka. It's good for her. I will never, ever let my daughter near alcohol. It's bad for her. In a great explore-both-sides post that is already generating debate, Paula Light's Ultrablog offers a conundrum: How do you mix alcohol and...

I dislike Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). It's not because I consider their original mission misplaced. to the contrary, it's quite noble. But as Radley Balko ( among others ) has noted, MADD has gone beyond the mission of reducing drunk driving fatalities and crossed the line into promoting "neo...