Eight is apparently not enough

the big news these days is the recent birth of the octuplet babies and whether or not the doctor should have maybe done more to discourage the mother from having all eight embryos from being implanted in the first place.

She says "they were all my babies; they were all successfully fertilized and so I wanted to keep them all..."

But looking at a graphic representing the children and their birth weights... they were all 3 lbs or less with some just above a pound.

So far all the babies have survived, but the potential for health problems will persist for months to come. It is still possible that some, many, or all of them will have developmental problems because of their abnormally low birth weights.

Is this responsible parenting?

And these eight babies are on top of the sextuplets she had in a previous pregnancy.

It doesn't help that she is also a single mother living with her parents. I am not morally opposed to single parents, but going it alone makes it a LOT harder for her to have to means and money to take care of fourteen children. And yes, she has her parents NOW, but without knowing how old they are, they might be too old to help her for very long.

Doctors should have advised against her having a second fertility-assisted pregnancy when she had already given birth to sextuplets. All of these kids are going to have a hard time in life , no matter how much their mother loves them

trying AGAIN...

Last year I was all jazzed about trying out for the Brew City Bruisers roller derby team... but I never made it to tryouts; tryouts were during the time I had mono last year.

Year before that I missed tryouts because I had pneumonia...

hoping THIS will be my year.

I'm pricing out gear online. This ain't a cheap hobby, but it doesn't have to be expensive either. Found a pair of skates under $100 shipped on eBay, and they are unused condition.

I'm finding skates that are over $600. I know people who have bought cars for less...

IT'S COMING!!!!!!!!

G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA

seeing the commercial tonight was the highlight of the Super Bowl...

SADDLEBACKING DEFINED!

Ok, I am a huge Dan Savage fan, even got the chance to hear him speak at Schwartz' Bookstore (the Shorewood location) few years back... I think I was even amongst the first five in line to get their shiny new copy of Skipping Towards Gommorrah signed.

A few years back, Dan and his readers "invented" and defined a new word: santorum (1. The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.) in reaction to Sen Rick Santorum's far right wing policy making.

The new word for the year is "Saddlebacking"

Saddlebacking: sad•dle•back•ing \ˈsa-dəl-ˈba-kiŋ\ vb [fr. Saddleback Church] (2009): the phenomenon of Christian teens engaging in unprotected anal sex in order to preserve their virginities

After attending the Purity Ball, Heather and Bill saddlebacked all night because she’s saving herself for marriage. Unfortunately her parents found out because they got santorum all over the sheets.

In Dan's own words from his column:

"Here's why this definition is perfect: Saddlebacking, like barebacking, involves one person riding up on another's backside. But in this case, it's not the bare-naked cock-in-ass that's the most important feature of the ride, but the fact that the person being ridden has been saddled—thanks to the efforts of the Rick Warrens of this world—with religious hang-ups and serious misconceptions about sex. Like the barebacker who casually tosses away his health—or his partner's health—because he believes, quite erroneously, that "risky = sexy," the saddlebacker offers up her ass because she believes, quite erroneously, that she can get fucked in the ass—vigorously, religiously—and still be considered a virgin on her wedding night.

I've set up a website—www.saddlebacking.com—to popularize the new definition. (Get to work, Google bombers!) Now let's get this term into common usage as quickly as possible."

"SNUGGIE"... the Chia Pet of the 21st Century?

The SNUGGIE... commercial shows an inept woman STRUGGLING with a blanket the size of a dish towel... how on EARTH did mankind progress as far as we have with just mere BLANKETS?

No need to worry any more... To the rescue is... the SNUGGIE! the "Blanket with Sleeves"...

or, what it actually is... a robe, on backwards...

that's revolutionary...

I love the pictures: the first guy looks like Malcom McDowell pretending to be a Jedi Knight. The woman knitting looks a bit like a monk. The woman with the baby isn't sharing her Snuggie Warmth... baby just gets to suffer until he is older... such Spartan lifestyle will toughen him up for a future without blankets.

My future is also sans Snuggie... but what does not kill me makes me stronger.