Put Your Funny Where Your Mouth Is!

Got this photo via email and I have no idea who any of these people are but it makes for a great game of Where’s Waldo. Or Peter. Or Dick. Or John Thomas. MUST STOP! I’m cracking myself up over here.

I challenge you to caption this gem. Whoever makes me pee my pants (not THAT hard to do) will get a free two week ad in my sidebar or a stack of $5 off coupons for Similac Organic DHA/ARA formula. I’m not trying to push formula like some OB nurse on the L&D floor but I have a bunch of these and they expire in December and if you happen to be a formula user, they could come in handy, no?

So go ahead. Slay me :)

Specify in the comments which prize you want or if you don’t want either prize and just want to make me pee my pants. And if you’re really cool and spread the word about this little challenge, let me know so I can link you back:

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Do You Know…

My friend Judy of the awesome Goody Blog would like you all to know about this month’s Parents podcast which is all about the dads and features none other than Greg Allen of the blog daddytypes.

Judy swears you will love it or she will come to your house and kiss your dog on the lips. Okay, not really on that last part. I just made that up, you know, for drama. Anyway, if you have a sec, go read the details about the podcast because it sounds like a really good-y one. (sorry…I can’t resist a pun).

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The ladies over at ParentBloggers would like you to know that they are giving away a FULL registration to Blogher ‘07 (a $200 value). Get all the details here and hurry because the deadline is Friday June 8th.

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The crew over at Babble want you to know they have a spanking new blog called drool.icio.us in which they bring you the “Top Million Baby Products”. They feature all kinds of parent, baby and kid-centric stuff found by chicks with flawlessly cool taste. Go show ‘em some love!

Have you checked out Sk*rt yet? If you haven’t, perhaps you’re familiar with Digg or Reddit and perhaps like me you find a lot of the links a little…dull? Well, Sk*rt is the same concept as Digg and Reddit but it’s for da ladies!

See, Sk*rt is an online media ranking site created for and by women, featuring topics women dig and was designed to promote sites, blogs, video, products, articles, ideas, art, etc. to women. Cool, huh? Run, don’t walk, and check out Sk*rt!

And finally, one of the most important things you should know about is the BlogHers Act Cooper Munroe and Emily McKhann of Been There and The MotherHood, along with BlogHer, are setting in motion a year-long initiative to harness the incredible power of women online. Simply put, this means that the BlogHers Act will take on two things –

1. Making a difference on a single global cause

2. Identifying the top four issues that women online want the U.S. Presidential candidates to address in order to win our votes in the ‘08 Election.

To participate in this amazing idea, go to Been There or BlogHer and let them know what global issue(s) are important to you. The deadline for suggestions is June 15th.

Go! Be heard!

Should Child Rapists Be Spared?

Apparently the Louisiana Supreme Court thinks not because last week it upheld the death sentence of a man convicted of raping an eight year old girl.

The specifics vary but capital punishment for child rape is legal in Georgia, Florida, Montana, Oklahoma, Louisiana and South Carolina. Texas also just passed a bill and it is expected the Governor will sign it into law. I didn’t even know a death sentence was an option in such cases but I have to say that I am uncharacteristically happy about it.

Ordinarily, I do not support the death penalty because of all the cases in which people have been proven wrongly convicted by the advent of DNA testing. But for some reason, I feel absolutely no compunction about giving a death sentence to someone who commits child rape, as in the Louisiana case, where the attack was so brutal that the little girl required surgery to try and repair the damage.

Perhaps if I knew all the facts, I would feel differently, but as it stands I feel no mercy whatsoever for the perpetrator, Patrick Kennedy.

I’m a little ashamed that I feel glad that he’s slated for death; that I can’t rise above it, but ultimately, I just look at it as one less predator to worry about; one less piece of shit for the state to support and then monitor when he gets out on parole, which he no doubt eventually would. And? One less piece of shit that will become a recidivist and rape again, as sexual predators almost always do.

I can’t explain the disparity between my feelings about capital punishment for murderers and child rapists except to say that, as a parent, I feel a special kind of hate for people that prey on kids that supercedes just about anything else. Logical? No. Of course not.

When I was nine years old, I was grabbed at a Holiday Inn ice machine by a guy who, ten minutes earlier, had helped me open the tricky door to our hotel room. He held me and asked me what I would do if he pulled his pants down and when I started screaming, he tried to put his hand over my mouth and forcefully subdue me. I struggled with him and when I broke free he ran away but I sometimes wonder what would have happened if I had been too scared to fight; if I had been too scared to scream?

We filed a police report but we never heard anything else about the case and thus I also wonder, on occasion, how many other girls were not as lucky as I was.

So I ask you…should child rapists get the death penalty and why?

Or should they be spared and why?

If you chose the former, would you still be in favor of the death penalty if the perpetrator were a family member?

And if you chose the latter, would you still feel that way if the victim were your own child?

I Has a Secret…

Despite my own history with adoption secrets, I still find this oddly amusing. But then again, who can resist a good LOL Cat?