There's a very funny Dana Carvey stand up special where he talks about how his kids liked being naked so much that they had to institute a "Naked Time" where they could run around au naturale (shouting "Naked Time!", natch), and how it freaked people who weren't used to it when they visited.

I was visiting a friend with a 3 year old and a 1 year old daughter. Her 3 year old vanished into her room for several minutes and we decided to go check on her when it got really quiet. Tess had stripped naked, drawn some sort of toddler tribal symbols all over her body with bath crayons and was standing in front of her mirror yelling, "YEAAAHH!"

Nudity is fun at any age, I guess.

edited to add:

We really enjoyed the stories at work. His mom, not so much.

We're trying to keep a sense of humor. He's lucky he's cute, though. Sometimes, that's all that's saving his ass.

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I'm a little surprised at people maintaining that it's not slavery if you're in your own (so to speak) country. What is it, then?

There is, theoretically, apartheid that could not be slavery-like. The definitions don't require sizable overlap to me. However, practically, once you've got the lack of morals and the power to institute apartheid, using the other as subjugated labour just kinda flows.

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Chris Rock says he flunked Black History(which makes him an idiot) putting King down for everything.

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I can say that I have, in all seriousness, vacuumed naked.

I've done this. Also pretty much only clean my bathroom naked, or about to be naked, because I clean it and then I shower and clean me.

Portland is having rampant unprotected flora sex again. There are just not enough drugs today.

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I'm a little surprised at people maintaining that it's not slavery if you're in your own (so to speak) country. What is it, then?

I think that they are limiting their definition of slavery to slavery as it happened in the United States.

We were asked to give other examples of slavery. I mentioned apartheid and the Jews. (After which I yelled "Godwin's Law!" to Joe.) One classmate went so far as to say that neither example was slavery because they weren't removed from their countries.

Hello? Jews not removed from their country? Ohhhkaaay...

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Skipped and skimmed...did I get here in time to celebrate Olivia's natal day?

My wireless keyboard has been dying a slow and lingering death, and finally just completely went belly-up, so I haven't been able to email or talk to you guys or anything! It was awful!

From way back:

Raq - apparently Swisher and Blanton toured European naval bases last year, including Greece, Spain and Italy. Cool beans.

Bastards. Sure, we get invitations to go tour naval ships, but do they tell us when A's players are at Souda Bay?

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I think that they are limiting their definition of slavery to slavery as it happened in the United States.

I really dislike this. Not that it's not a valid choice of framing for a discussion, but just because I think it happens enough that people think of it as the slavery, instead of one instance of slavery.

I'm not too up on US slavery dates, but in Jamaica, the slave trade was made illegal before slavery was--so there was a period of time where no one at all was being displaced, but slavery was still in effect. Did that happen in America?

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I really dislike this.

So do I. I think it realy shows narrow-mindedness that shouldn't be there in a class. But I'm very Pollyanna like that.

Did that happen in America?

I don't know. It's something I'd have to look and see. IIRC, slavery wasn't covered much in my high school history classes other than to say, "The North didn't want slavery. The South did. There was a war. Lincoln made the Emancipation Proclamation and slavery was ended cause it was bad."

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Did that happen in America?

Yes.

Edited for more detail: I'm not sure if there was US Law outlawing international slave trade or if it was a practical matter that transport from Africa was handled by the British, but importation of slaves definitely stopped before slavery did. I have seen the argument made that slave owners became more invested in keeping slavery legal in that period because the domestic slave trade was so lucrative and less prone to losses from death during the middle passage.

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ita - I found this snippet:

Rhode Island forbade the importation of slaves completely in 1774. All of the states except Georgia had banned or limited it by 1786; Georgia did so in 1798 - although some of these laws were later repealed.

Here: [link]

History of Slavery in the US.

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