March 2012
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Some days it's hard ...
… to put my baby boy to sleep and kiss him good night. Because he goes to sleep so quickly and easily, without even a whimper, just clutching his flat bear for comfort, eyes closed after nursing himself into a peaceful calm. He drifts off with sweet little murmurs and happy bleats for all of 10 seconds. His strawberry blonde hair glitters softly in the dark of the room, as I shut the door...
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From PC to Mac - part 1
I’ve been anti-Mac since the iMac came out, and encouraged people to buy a computer because of how it looked on the outside, instead of how it worked on the inside. I built my own computers, I run a Windows laptop, my phone is an Android, and I bought an Apple TV only to promptly hack it to run XBMC.
Recently I decided to buy a tablet computer. And I was narrowing my choice to the Asus EEE...
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What Hrdy finds is that a supportive network of caregivers is an evolutionarily...
– Times Higher Education - Women and children first
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Take or leave ‘attachment parenting’ as you wish but raising human infants is...
– Re-post: Oppressed by breastfeeding « blue milk
When we naturalize an ideology, we speak about it in such a way as to shut down...
– Balancing Jane: Sex and Laundry: The Role of Women in Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes
If we send someone a catalog and say, ‘Congratulations on your first child!’ and...
– How Companies Learn Your Secrets - NYTimes.com
Even though I believed in choice and reproductive freedom, even though I trusted...
– Guernica / Un-bearing A hard-to-read, amazing story of a woman’s abortion.
But the real issue is whether Christian absolutists, be they Catholics or...
– GOP’s Christian Hysteria Attacks U.S. Principle of Freedom From Religion - The Daily Beast