Bad Moms Wanna Know What Is Up With Madonna
Madonna is a fascinating case in the pantheon of celebrity mothers. You would think that she’d have asserted herself as the Mother Of All Bad Mothers, what with the pointy-bra’ed, Sex book-y, flirtation-with-heresy past and all, but instead she went and became all stiff and British and wrote some saccharine children’s books and bragged about [...]
I Can Now Say That I’ve Truly Seen It All
A video clip of a young Indonesian boy smoking a cigarette is making its way around the internet, and the story behind it is as sad as it is shocking. Ardi Rizal smokes up to 40 cigarettes a day. He smokes one brand and one brand only, and has major meltdowns when his parents try [...]
Happy Mother’s Day, Moms Who Rule Teh Interwebs! Love, Us.
Obviously, these guys have no idea who Dooce is. (PS: Happy Mother’s Day!) * * * *
If Charlotte’s Web Were Reimagined By Hunter S. Thompson, It Would Be Way Less Awesome Than You’d Think
So, Cracked – which I read daily because, yes, I have the sensibility of a thirteen year old boy – has a round-up of worst-ever rip-offs of popular childrens’ animated films. It’s pretty awesome. Also, disturbing. but mostly awesome. Among them is a rip-off of Cars that features disturbing, if juvenile, sexual innuendo (headlights! oh, [...]
Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grown Up To Be Heidis
I know that this is supposed to be, like, funny and all, but seriously, it just makes the hair on the back of my neck stand on end. I mean, yes, these adorable little girls are play-acting and it’s all pretend, but jeebus murphy, I see a similar kind of hair-tossing and voguing among the [...]
New Evidence That Some Things ARE Harder Than Home Schooling
Katha Pollitt on femivores and the new SAHM: (aka Women Who Stay Home To Raise Chickens): “it’s like home-schooling, but with farm animals.” (Yes, the picture is entirely irrelevant, except for, maybe, the giant chicken. But isn’t it awesome?)
So THAT’S What Little Princes Are Made Of
I need your help folks: I’ve been staring at this children’s book or dvd cover for a while now and still can’t form a sentence to explain what is running through my head. Is it about a princess and her new beau? Is it a tale that aims to provide princesses with a reality check [...]
Ohio Doesn’t Understand How Breastfeeding Works
Apparently, this pro-breastfeeding billboard in Ohio left folks frightened and disturbed. Why? Well, because that baby in picture? Has MILK ON HIS CHIN. BREAST milk. From a PERSON. Which is, you know, DISGUSTING. . . . What? Nobody had a problem with those ‘Got Milk?’ ads, where everybody had cow’s milk on their upper lip? [...]
Texas Wants To Spank Your Kids
Holy shit, REALLY? You mean we spend all this time up here in the frozen north debating whether or not it’s abusive to spank your child even once, when they’re throwing a fit and about to hurl themselves into traffic, while Texas is all, oh, yeah, whatevs, IT’S GOOD FOR THEM, why not let teachers [...]
