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If your approach to parenting in our post-sexual revolution hellscape isn’t what Antoine Dodson famously called for, you need to wake up, because they raping everybody out here. A clip of a “Blue’s Clues” song celebrating Masturbation and Genital Amputation Month went viral over the weekend heading into June. “Blue’s Clues” also released an episode in May celebrating LGBT identification. “Blue’s Clues” is a long-running preschool TV show that has played on Nickelodeon Jr. since 1996. “Blue’s Clues became the highest-rated show for preschoolers on American commercial television and was critical to Nickelodeon’s growth,” Wikipedia says. The lyrics of its...

Children’s show “Caillou” is officially dead. And parents are dancing on the “little brat’s” grave. “We’re saying farewell to @cailloudhx,” PBS Kids announced in a tweet along with tips “for what to do when your child’s favorite media goes away.” But it seems the bald cartoon character was the least-favorite animated star among moms and dads everywhere, who have been celebrating online since the news of the show’s cancellation broke. “Caillou’s reign of terror is over!!” wrote one relieved viewer on Twitter, while other Caillou-skeptics’ complaints have included that the tot is a bootleg Charlie Brown, called him a “little...

<p>The Berenstain family wrote on its web site that it did not know about the controversy surrounding Chick-Fil-A and gay marriage until July 25.</p> <p>Comments by the CEO of the fast food chain Chick-fil-A opposing same-sex marriage continued to reverberate for a second week, drawing the beloved children’s book figures the Berenstain Bears into the controversy.</p>

What's Your Baby's Carbon Footprint? By Kiera Butler and Dave Gilson, Mother Jones News <> While carbon trading will no doubt play a key role in curbing emissions, environmental scientists say the politically sensitive issue of population growth also needs to be given more consideration in the climate change debate By Barbara Miller Australian Broadcast Company <> Meet the women who won't have babies - because they're not eco friendly By Natasha Courtenay Smith and Morag Turner - The Mail <> Children come with a high carbon cost Scientist.com New Scientist Magazine <><> Face Fwd Comments: There is a huge...

The Hamas Television is using a clone of Disney’s Mickey Mouse to teach children to hate Israel and America, and aspire to Islam’s inevitable and impending world domination. The squeaky-voiced Mickey Mouse lookalike, named Farfur, is the star of a weekly children’s program called Tomorrow’s Pioneers on the official Hamas TV station (Al-Aqsa TV). Farfur and his co-host, a young girl named Saraa’, teach children about such things as the importance of the daily prayers and drinking milk, while taking every opportunity to indoctrinate young viewers with teachings of Islamic supremacy, hatred of Israel and the US and support of...

It was some six years ago, and my youngest boy, Reid, along with his best friend Mitchy, both 3, had browbeaten me into taking them to the matinee of the "Thomas and the Magic Railroad" movie. We had settled into our seats, they with their popcorn and soda, and I with the mission of an afternoon nap -- a goal I was well on my way to achieving when I was jolted awake by the dialogue in the preview of the upcoming "Rugrats" movie. Scene after scene concluded with a comedic punchline revolving around soiled diapers, flatulence, mucus and...

I'm forlorn and heartbroken. I haven't felt this used since Charlie Hustle gambled on baseball and cheated on his wife. In a cruel and heartless world, we should be allowed to keep our heroes. But no, another paragon of truth and justice has swam off into the polluted waters of debauchery. At least according to the highly attuned rocket scientists over at American Family Association. The American Family Association claims Spongebob Squarepants undermines our morals. And here I thought he was fighting the good fight. I couldn't imagine anyone more square than SpongeBob Squarepants. But alas, he's been swimming with...

Five years ago, Barney the purple dinosaur was a dominant feature on the children's television landscape, as famous as as Big Bird and as popular as the Rugrats. Preschool children incessantly nagged their Barney-hating parents to buy them sing-along videotapes or tickets to the dinosaur's stage shows. Toy stores overflowed with stuffed animals, miniature playhouses and other merchandise that featured Barney and his prehistoric friends, Baby Bop and B.J. But in recent years Barney has become an endangered species, eclipsed by the likes of Clifford the Big Red Dog and Dora the Explorer. Barney's new owners plan to change that...

Casey Jones died the same day that a news story came across the wires about "Sesame Street'' developing an HIV-positive character to hang around with Bert and Ernie and the rest of the gang. In the introductory stages, the HIV-positive Muppet will be seen only in foreign markets but might be introduced to the kids in the United States, too. There has been a bit of a sea change between Casey arriving every day on Track 11 and "Sesame Street'' introducing the kids to the dangers of AIDS. It would have been interesting to ask Roger Awsumb what he thought...