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Whether you kiss your kids on the lips or not, it is still essential to lick your thumbs or fingers and wipe it on their face to wipe off dirt.

I lost 45 pounds about 10 years ago and have kept it off. My recommendation is to spend an hour understanding how calories work and how much is in various food. Do a google search for a calorie calculator. Multiply your desired weight times 13 and that how many you can have in a day. Drinks count. It'll take a long time to lose the weight, but this new amount is the new lifestyle you keep forever. I.e., you don't 'go on a diet' but rather 'permanently change what and how much you eat." One you see what foods have which calories, you'll probably see that vegetables have less, carbs have more and meat is caloric. Since you want to avoid the PAIN of being hungry, try to find foods you can fill up on that don't have a lot of calories. Plan by the WEEK, not the day. If you go out on Friday night for a nice dinner and a bunch of drinks, count that in. If you reverse engineer paleo, atkins, cabbage soup diet, south beach, or whatever, they all end up with lower calorie counts. I recommend creating systems and not giving yourself too many choices. What works for me is a egg beater omelette for breakfast and a bowl of not-too-caloric soup for lunch. Every day pretty much. Best of luck!

In this sense, left* and right* anarchism could co-exist. The commune people could set up their communal and communal factory, own it mutually, not use currency with each other, etc. The an caps could own their property elsewhere. They could choose to ignore each other or even trade. * Not sure I like the terms "left" and "right" to discuss this, but it's handy enough to get the point across.

I have a friend with a five person family (kids aged 4, 9, and 10) and they decided to lash a king bed with a queen to make a giant bed so that the family could sleep together on some nights. The kids still retain and use their own room. It accommodates occasion family-wide cosleeping without getting a knee in one's back.

Hi Wittney, having her want to fall asleep with you in the new house sounds completely normal to me. As anecdote, we cosleep with our three year old, but it isn't unusual to break out into different groupings based on if somebody is having a bad dream or something. E.g., my son and I will go sleep together in the guest room, or my older daughter may ask to sleep on the floor of the bedroom at night, and often my son and daughter will share a bed if they are feeling uneasy (ages 6 and 8). I find it to be something that is comforting and affectionate. Oddly, adults seem to want to cosleep with each other (even, or even mostly, in the absence of sex on many nights) presumably to feel safer, more comfortable and to express care. Kids must desire this too. IMO

Hey, there's two conversations going on! Libertarians aren't created perfect from the first second. For example, it took Stefan 20 years of mulling. It's taken me 15+ so far. It takes most people a long time. Watching a Ron Paul video isn't a bad start. I like the book recommendations of Schiff's "why an economy grows..." and Rothbard's "What has government done to our money". These would be among the first two that I'd recommend. I've bought five copies of the Schiff book so far. I like Schiff's other books (Crash Proof, The Real Crash) for newbies as well. They are very moderate, reflect on current events, easy to read, and are generally non-threatening. That they don't go into ethics, family, anarchism, etc., makes for a smooth run-way.

Perhaps personalize the debate with the "against me" approach?

It only took the government two years to find the boy locked in the room. Interesting that this is held up as a case of good government.

I may be daft, but isn't poverty measured by a quintile of the bell curve anyways? I.e., the definition of poverty is set by what the poorest 20% (or whatever) is earning?

I found this true, personally. Everything from how I sense danger, to fear of dying, to what makes me choke up or laugh, to how I think of money, on and on, all seriously transformed when I became a parent. I'd be interested to hear what happens to dad's how don't get the time in, either because they are absent, divorced, traveling or merely going to work 60 hours a week. If they don't get the rewiring, they may end up being crappier dads.

@tjt, I grew up in the Detroit area, spent the last 20 years in the Boston area, and now live in the Charleston, SC area. I don't know if it is regional. When it comes to friends' wives, not every hello and goodbye gets one, and not everybody offers (including me) and too often it's my wife getting kissed and not me ;-)

Jobs be damned, that's pretty neat!

I sometimes kiss my children on the lips, especially at bed time. I used to kiss my mother on the lips, even at age 63. (she's dead now, so we've cut it out) I still kiss my mother-in-law on the lips. Sometime my sister-in-laws. Sometimes my friends' wives too, such as when parting from a dinner party. I think kissing is a nice gesture. As long as you're not heading to bonerville every time, I think you are OK. Just a subjective opinion by a stranger on the internet.

I'm guessing the appeal of the commercial is to show mom's having cocktail fun at a more low-key destination (the movies) than they would go to when they were single (the nightclub). A sort of mashing of the two. As for "careless parenting", the woman is likely instructing her husband over the phone. I frequently let my wife go out to the movies or dinner with friends and don't find it to be an act of careless parenting. I don't see too much difference if it were a babysitter. As an anecdote, my wife and I went to the movies on Friday, left the kids with a sitter, and had drinks at the movie theatre. Everyone survived.

We had this situation with our children (age 3, 6, and 8), except it wasn't a kitten, it was grandma. We went with the truth and nothing shocking came of it. Kids tend to believe and except reality pretty well as they get a new dose of it at every turn. I can't say the 3 year old totally gets it at all, but it's not like one explanation is more comforting than the other at this age. Three is pretty young. As an aside, I always thought the "death" conversation would be something to approach with a certain tact and elegance when they were at some higher age, but it comes out much quicker. Somebody dies in at least half of over Disney film, they find dead animals walking on the beach, people have dead relatives, etc. It just sort of blurts itself out around age 3-5.

I apologize in advance for not giving an argument, but there's a certain trivialness to this either way. You don't vote and nothing happens and you do vote and all that happens is you burn an hour at the polling station and still nothing happens. I think the gravest error in this would be if we were actively trying to convince people that it was some great thing to do and that it legitimized anything positive. As anecdote, and maybe I'm off here, I was planning on not voting last national election but the local R candidate proactively sent me an absentee ballot I could mail in. There was some poor libertarian running for congress, so I gave him a checkmark and returned the ballot. I didn't presume to be acquiring power through this, nor felt it was some large surrender of consent. I just wanted his little pathetic count to be one more. His total count ended up to be well less than a 1,000.

As someone close to the industry, I'd expand the idea of web development to include mobile apps. Every thing today is pushing out interfaces into multiple channels and formats (computer, tablet, mobile). Even as a consumer, you can probably sense this.

It's neat, but what a tedious labor. Once anyone gets past the whole 'God doesn't exist" thing, who needs to find inconsistencies in an ancient text where the BIG FAT ideas it carries as its main themes are so obviously bunk?

If you are listening to FDR podcasts, than you probably have no problem with complex things. They can be complex at times.

Always missing from the holocaust outrage is the fact that the US essentially enabled the starvation of 10,000,000 Japanese during the same time. They called, unimaginatively and horrifically, "Operation Starvation". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Starvation I can't seem to find a source for the body count number, I'm citing from memory. I asked a public school US History Teacher about this and he was like "Oh yea, we don't ever mention that!". I asked my octogenarian step-father about it and he remembers it in the news as a good thing. I bring it up to show how history can be spun. I'm not sure the Nazi's had any monopoly on evil.

Even in the NBC photos you can see his iphone and a Blu-ray disc.

I own/operate a five person design firm. Although all of my employees do have a degree, we do not require them or screen non-degreed people out of the hiring process. My newest hire just has a two-year degree. If you are not quite ready to jump into the work force, you might stay in school with the path to least resistance. E.g., take very easy classes and use your spare time to practice your design. I did this. I just took the easiest classes I could and then used my own time to work on things I cared about. I walked out with an art degree, but it never helped me get hired. I was also going to a very lame, inexpensive third-tier state school and my folks were covering my tuition. Although I earn enough now to pay the entire five-year tuition in about three weeks. If you are taking on debt to get the degree or burning lots of money, I'd skip it. (Disclosure: I'm in my early forties) Another question: You say you drop complicated things. Do you listen to FDR podcasts?

For the full 13 years of school, the bill would be $381,537.

This barely makes sense. The PC sensitivity in the NE is so stifling that I can't believe the school would feel it was risk-worthy. Like people get fired for passing out books like this. Like, I think they already removed the word "nigger" from Huck Finn. I wouldn't think they would allow wholesale depictions of intercourse to make it in.

I've watched bits of this, the Larken one and the Stef one. I think it's the CERTAINTY that annoys me most. Jan knows with precision what would happen. There's no admission that maybe we don't totally know everything.