Simon Crerar
women.timesonline.co.ukJordan’s baby daughter Princess Tiaamii joins a long list of children doomed to playground ridicule by their celebrity parents
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by Llewellyn Rockwell, Jr.

Christopher Ratte, professor in the department of classics at the University of Michigan, was recently turned into a jailbird and had his son taken away from him, all in the name of protecting the child from the father. He had taken his 7-year-old son to a baseball game in Detroit and ordered him lemonade. What was served up was a “Mike’s Hard Lemonade,” which his son prepared to drink. Suddenly security arrived.

“You know this is an alcoholic beverage?” the security guard asked.

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In the Texas government’s war against the women and children of the FLDS Church, Colorado Springs resident Rozita Swinton, a 33-year-old woman (a precinct delegate for the El Paso County Democratic Party who intends to vote for Barack Obama at the state convention in May), is “Curveball.” That was the code-name of a veteran con artist whose patently false intelligence provided the pretext for a the Iraq invasion. In this case, “Curveball” was “Sarah,” the purported 16-year-old FLDS polygamist wife who called a domestic abuse hotline and set in motion the invasion of the sect’s YFZ Ranch commune in El Dorado.
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Pamela Paul, Washington Post

My husband and I are getting ready to do what many couples in these brink-of-recessionary times would consider unthinkable. No, we’re not buying a Martha’s Vineyard retreat or planning a month in St. Bart’s or eco-decorating our house.

We’re planning to have a third child.

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By Bill McIntyre

“Life is hard. It’s harder if you’re stupid.” - JOHN WAYNE

Is stupid the new smart? Is dumb the new wise? Is oblivious the new aware?

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The Telegraph

When researchers in the Nineties found that listening to Mozart enhanced university students’ spatial reasoning, an entire industry sprang up based on the claim that flooding the nursery with piano concerti could boost a baby’s brain.

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