When the Night Kitchen was still around, the staff stopped giving me a menu, because they knew that no matter what else I might have looked at, I was going to order the poutine. I am a creature of habit and comfort food.

I'm having a hard time processing people going onto a message board and posting that prolonged breast feeding is child abuse.

I just don't get at all how you can call it abuse. Unless the kid is four and you don't feed her anything else, I guess, but who does that?

The Thai restaurant near me in Michigan used to apologise to me when I came in the door if they were out of duck. I think I was really boring in Michigan.

So, I was reading headlines and I came across this:

Van Susteren under fire for not disclosing Cain connection

I got up from my computer and walked around the house for a few minutes before clicking the link. I was CERTAIN that what was being discussed is that Greta had a sexual relationship with Cain and I wasn't certain if I was prepared to read about it.

Thankfully, the text of the connection is far less salacious than my imagination:

As host of Fox News' prime time show "On the Record," Van Susteren has talked about Herman Cain's presidential candidacy at length. But she has failed to disclose the role of her husband, prominent Washington lawyer John Coale, as an advisor to the candidate.

I don't get it either, Amy. But people are judgey.

It seems like a long time to me, but I never had kids - so how would I know? There are things that I might get judgey about , but not that

In fact, I usually bump into the other assholic extreme of people who get all judgey about bottle or formula feeding.

The fun part is how on comment threads, it's usually the same people.

The "formula is poison but if the kid is old enough to walk then breastfeeding is creepy and wrong" attitude is disgustingly common.

This sounds like it was from that Slate advice column thing the other day where someone wrote in to complain that a five year old walked up to his mom, said he was thirsty and she gave him the boob at the dinner table with her new in laws.

She told them he's allergic to cow's milk and this is the only way he can get milk or something.

It's in Ask Prudie.

This sounds like it was from that Slate advice column thing the other day where someone wrote in to complain that a five year old walked up to his mom, said he was thirsty and she gave him the boob at the dinner table with her new in laws.

That was the most recent one - there've been several lately.

Cool set of photos showing retouching: some of it is really kind of horrifying how much they change.

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