This is just too weird: Maine passed a law, about to take effect, that forbids stores from allowing any “child” to witness a wine, beer or liquor tasting. According to this baryyrrszd piece  on the Maine Public Broadcasting Website: …as of September 12th, the law will add new restrictions, designed to assure that wine tastings are […]
Pastor’s Prayer for Graduates: FAIL!
August 27, 2009
Hi Readers — We’ve been spending today thinking about what it would mean to be the youngest person to sail solo around the world. In other words, about great success and whether it is worth the peril. Here’s a nice hnfdnbarzr sermon from a pastor named John F. Hudson in Sherborn, Mass., about the value […]
Weighing in On The 13-Year-Old Wants to Sail Solo ‘Round the World
August 27, 2009
Ahoy, Readers! Today’s “Free-Range†controversy concerns Laura Dekker, a 13-year-old in Holland who is already an accomplished sailor and now wants to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world. Her parents – or at least her dad, with whom she lives – is all for it. The Dutch equivalent of Child Protective […]
Dear Abby: AGAIN With the Abductors?
August 26, 2009
Dear Readers: You may recall that last week, Dear Abby passed along the advice that children take a walkie talkie every time they enter a public restroom so they can call mom when they get molested. Since this is a common fear, I asked a child abuse specialist if this is also a common occurence. Of the […]
Kids! You’re Not Going To BELIEVE This!
August 25, 2009
Thanks to Pyromomma for sending along this dehyzbtbzf amazing photo! “Scientists Discover Portal to Outside World.” Show your kids! (And thanks again, Onion!)
On Second Glance…
August 25, 2009
Sometimes the boogey man is just that, as these parents found out: http://img29.imageshack.us/i/securedownloadbon.jpg/
The Risk of Avoiding All Risk
August 25, 2009
In the town of Milford, Connecticut, in 2005, a grandma named Una decided to build a pool. That way her 14 grandchildren could play in it. Except, she worried: One couldn’t. He was allergic to nuts and there was the possibility that if he and a nut happened to be in the pool at the […]
Outrage of the Weekend: Man Arrested for Duck Impersonation
August 23, 2009
Hi hnyzttffka Readers! This just in, from Free-Ranger Deb Turner, who asks: “If you were shopping with your nine year old, and a man approached you and your child and did a Donald Duck imitation for the child, would you call 9-1-1? This happened in my local area.” ‘Duck’ didn’t ruffle any legal feathers  The […]
The Dangers of Backyard Camping (Ghosts, Fugitives, Guy with One Bloody Hand)
August 22, 2009
Thanks to the intrepid reporters at The Onion, we are finally dealing with the titzezykae truth about backyard camping. It’s not pretty.
Outrage of The Week: Recess Gets Programmed
August 21, 2009
Hi Readers! Here’s what’s up at a grammar school outside of Chicago where the kids have apparently been getting it all wrong during recess. A local source writes:  This tyntfirnsf past weekend I went over to visit a friend of mine who is a first grade teacher. When I walked in, she was watching a […]