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"....... I did an IP trace and found that the address was owned by Bloomberg. It makes sense, since I also found out that she works for Bloomberg via Everytown For Gun Safety. Her Disqus account is active, and features snark, misdirects, sarcasm, insults, and most of all, prose designed to demoralize and demonstrate the complete impotence of whatever group she is berating at the moment. The prose is designed to cause depression and dejection."

...As Natalie Angier, The Times’s biology expert, noted, research has shown that women differed from men “in the importance they accorded a man’s physical appearance, with many expressing a comparatively greater likelihood of being aroused by evidence of talent or intelligence — say, while watching a man deliver a great speech.” This could explain why many Republican women are so frustrated. They have been deprived of the bristly excitement of hearing their men on the stump delivering great speeches for quite some time now. The Daddy Party, sick with desire for a daddy, is like a lost child. John McCain,...

Happy July to all! I would like to use this week's thread as a sounding board (if that means what I think it means). How do you like the basic layout of the thread? Do you like having one topic for eveyone to sound off on, or would you prefer the thread to be a little more loose--a little more like a bunch of moms shooting the breeze and going off on tangents over coffee (or juleps!)? This is our thread, remember, not my thread, so be as honest as you like. What say you, moms? I hope that everyone...

Welcome to the promised thread just for us moms: the stay at homes, the workforcers, the stepmothers, the grandmothers, the mothers-to-be. Dads, you're welcome to join in, too, but be forewarned: you may find yourselves confronted with breastfeeding tips!!! I have heard form many of you over the past week, in mail and on threads, and it has been suggested that we discuss the isolation which many of us deal with. What had not occurred to me until I heard from some of you is that workforce moms are often isolated from other adults, although this occurs in a subtler...

Proud grandfather says child will have ‘traditional family’ The 5-pound 2-ounce baby girl born one minute after midnight on New Year’s Day in a Virginia hospital was greeted with the usual accolades and awe poured over newborns. “She’s adorable. She’s perfect. She’s brilliant,” her mother, Helen Rubin, told reporters who gathered to see metropolitan Washington’s “First Baby of the Year.” But for this New Year’s baby, there’s a twist: She has two mommies. “We eventually decided it was time to go ahead and have kids, like everyone else would,” Joanna Bare, Rubin’s partner of 12 years, said at a news...

In Gaza, the mother of a Palestinian suicide attacker who killed two Israelis before being shot dead has spoken of her feelings about her son's actions. A video released by Hamas shows a proud mother taking up arms beside her favourite son. Click here for full BBC News story.