Hi lurkers!

Way to go Beej!

Way to go Hec (the reading sounds like it was a lot of fun)!

~ma to those who need it.

Yep, napping on Daddy is the best.

She has such a distinctive face. She looks nothing like any other baby I've ever seen, who generally seem like doughy lumps.

This one was cute

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She seems to be saying, "Excuse me, it's eating me."

Is there any doubt this adorable, harmless child has zombies and world domination in her future?

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And her eyes are so huge! They're almost anime huge.

She has such a distinctive face. She looks nothing like any other baby I've ever seen, who generally seem like doughy lumps.

Totally. She has these gorgeous, refined features. Dare I say, regal?

Em is, indeed, adorable. She looks like she has some secret knowledge or something. And the picture of her and MM asleep is priceless.

And Aims, not only will we offer to take out your MIL, we'll think up really cool ways to do it.

Sweet mother of god ... There's a series on KSL (source of the story about the exploding stereo) about porn addiction. "My husband's porn addiction ruined our marriage!" "He was such a spiritual man, then the internet made him a sex addict!"

I made the mistake of reading the comments on the story, hoping I'd see "For heaven's sake get a life" comments. There were three. Most of them were all going "Thank god KSL had the courage to address this horrible scourge!" etc. It nauseates me to think of the ignorance and namby-pambiness of the people sitting around me.

Oh, sure, there's destructive porn out there. I hit some websites, blink in horror, and hit the back button as fast as the mouse can move. People can get obsessed in anything to the point of neglecting their family. There's some people in my office who have a problem with fantasy sports, if you ask me.

They sit there, mouthing ignorant pieties at each other. And I sit there and think, "Guess what, nimrod, I not only look at porn, I've written it." So freaking, freaking sad.

yay more Em pictures!

Hec, I like the way you think of lurking Buffistas.

Dee said it was both weird and exciting to recognize JZ and Emmett when they came in. I think it was probably similar to the sensation we all had when big batches of us first met at the Chicago F2F. You know these people through their words, and some pictures and then BOOM there they are in front of you. Almost like a character had walked off a page.

You can really see a lot of MM's bone structure in that arm-reaching anime eyes picture of Emeline. When I met her I mostly noticed the Aimee elements in her face.

This was, unsurprisingly, a big thing in the freak-ass church. They equated any sort of consumption of porn (i.e., reading Playboy, renting a movie, even if you rent it to watch it with your spouse) with porn addiction, and therefore all porn is the devil's work and destroys families and society.

That's like saying that drinking one beer is alcoholism and therefore all beer is evil.

Like you said, Connie, addiction to *anything* (porn, booze, gambling, shopping) is going to cause serious problems in a relationship. It's the addiction itself, and not the object of the addiction, that's the problem.