I know lots and lots of wee children - boys and girls - who "breastfeed" their dolls with their actual nipples. I have also seen a little boy "breastfeed" a toy truck. Kids with nursing younger siblings already do this kind of imitative play all the time.

She basically equated breastfeeding with sex.

Well, one usually does have to have the latter to make the former necessary...

We were talking about the breasfeeding doll at work yesterday, and I couldn't decide if I thought it was awesome or weird. Possibly both? I think any kind of active bodily functions are weird on a doll, but I think pro-breastfeeding propaganda is awesome.

The Vegetarian Myth:

Soil, species, rivers. That’s the death in your food. Agriculture is carnivorous: what it eats is ecosystems, and it swallows them whole.

My sister barely makes a living wage and she's had to take two weeks furlough this summer. It drives me crazy that they don't target those things a little more.

Yeah, we were furloughed for two days. I was talking to a cabinet member who reminded me that "I was furloughed for five days " I was like, motherfucker you make at least three times as much as I do. Cry me a river.

Agriculture is carnivorous: what it eats is ecosystems

So tempted to become all pedantic-precise about this.

I almost stopped myself from writing THIS much.

Just heard on a conference call:

"Get on the call, Susan, you're pissing on the wheels of progress."

Huh. I've just been asked to contribute to the Steppenwolf blog.