Monday, February 09, 2009

Getting back into the swing of things



Just a couple of links and some pics today.

My cousin in law is doing the 3 day walk for breast cancer again this year, and is fundraising at her site. Be sure to check out her pictures from last years walk and drop some money if you can.

Right before I left town I was in a Star Tribune article about the controversy over banning breastfeeding pictures on Facebook. I don't really feel like me quote was placed in the context it was meant -- I went through the banned pictures on facebook and a majority of them were of women who were breastfeeding and had the other breast exposed, and many of them were breastfeeding children that appeared to be two years old or older. I'm fine with people breastfeeding in public, and I didn't feel like that was what these pictures were about. But the article, and the follow up point that both my negative comments and the other negative comments made were by women who couldn't breastfeed, made it clear that we were supposed to look like we were anti-breastfeeding because we weren't able to. So, thanks for once again bringing back my breastfeeding guilt, Strib.

Finally, for a bit of politics, God wants Norm Coleman to win. But only when he's on conservative radio

3 comments:

Mark Gisleson said...

I think you're either bloggered or that 2d picture is 4GB big because your page refuses to finish loading it.

Smarty said...

Heh. Mark used to grouse about all the baby pics but now he can't get enough.

s'okay. She's just that darn cute.

Mark Gisleson said...

OK, since there is no honest reply that would leave us on speaking terms, let me just concede that VJ's a cutie, but seriously I keep coming here because I keep expecting to find political content.

Have you thought about having VJ act out the day's political dramas? Maybe when she's a little older? Put her in a pantsuit and she'd be a dead ringer for the SOS when she was a baby!