Thomas Beatie, the “Pregnant Man,” will be on The Oprah Winfrey Show Thursday, April 3rd.
Thomas is a transgender man who kept his female reproductive organs and is six months pregnant.
Apparently, his current wife can’t have children, so he is doing the duty. Thomas was artificially inseminated and is expecting a baby […]

Thank god this is an optional choice. To each their own, of course, but nothing depresses me more than people who choose this route because they think they can’t choose anything else. [via Waxy]

At a news conference in Brooklyn, state Atty. Gen. Andrew M. Cuomo said the arrests served as a message that “organized crime still exits. . . . We like to think it’s a vestige of the past. It’s not. It is as unrelenting as weeds that continue to sprout in the cracks of society.
Seems the […]

My kid sister Rachel Fracassa, having just completed a rigorous raw food chef certification after a couple of years of solo training, has just opened her new business, “Lemons in the Kitchen.” I’m super proud of her, even if I have every intention to continue eating cooked meat, at least until the day she can […]

Everytime I think I don’t ever want children, I’m reminded of the unique gift they bring: someone nearby who it’s always safe to laugh at.

See also: “How many 5 year-olds could you take on at once? [2+2]
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Good on Mark Frauenfelder for telling me something I wanted to know: that the “Dangerous Book for Boys” by Conn and Hal Iggulden is actually all that dangerous. (Not a surprise in our litigious society, but I had held out hope since the book original ran in the UK, where every boy at 13 is […]

Moms are dumb. At least the shrill caricatures of moms that I’m not quite sure ever actually existed, except when they were my buddy Mike’s hilarious Filipina mother Linda, who would chide his bad language with screams of “What the shit, Michael. Your mouth all the time!” Then she would cook us lumpia. God, I […]

Judd Apatow directed 40-Year-Old Virgin, probably 2005’s best comedy, and is back with Knocked Up, which he not only directed but wrote. (The movie’s poster, featuring Seth Rogan’s mug, is even set on a gradient background that is reminiscent of Virgin’s Steve Carrell poster.) The regular Apatow gang is back, with Paul Rudd, James Franco, […]

CNN is running a gallery documenting Japan’s “Sumo Crying Babies” competition, in which giant men hold tiny babies face-to-face. The first one to cry wins.
What’s that, sumo baby? You are hungry? So is your handler! Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha chomp smlormf crunch glurgb.
Gallery: Sumo Crying Babies [CNN]

It may seem cruel, but she’s got to have the energy to crawl across her sandbox filled with broken glass on her way to rifle training.
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