I hate taxes as much as the next dad, but taxes are sometimes good. They raise prices and change behavior, such as smoking. And often, legislators best efforts to tie taxes to consumer education (anti-smoking campaigns) or health effects (cancer research) are reversed when new legislatures need the cash to fund other pet projects (remember when lotteries were only to be used to … [Read more...] about France approves soda tax and I agree
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Worst Dads: Dad charged with binding girl with tape
Maybe at this point, it's just piling on, but sometimes things people do with or to kids, supposedly thinking it's all in good fun, are just too much. Here a single dad saw his daughter playing with packing tape and decided it would be funny to wrap it around her legs and hands and over her mouth and post a picture on Facebook. To make matters worse, he labeled the photo … [Read more...] about Worst Dads: Dad charged with binding girl with tape
2011 in Bans around babies and kids
Some days it just seems like there are too many rules. Take a look at this list compiled by Yahoo! Shine's Piper Weiss on crazy rules set up around pregnancy, baby names, schools and travel. Some seem a bit over the top and more than a few downright unnecessary, but in a world more and more focussed on the individual, it's not surprising some organizations are trying to herd … [Read more...] about 2011 in Bans around babies and kids
Laptop making you infertile?
Add it to the list: no more laptop on your knees if you're trying to have a baby. A new study, published in the medical journal Fertility and Sterility by researchers from Argentina and the U.S., found that semen samples placed a little more than an inch under a Wi-Fi-connected laptop experienced more DNA damage and mobility issues than regular sperm. The samples were taken … [Read more...] about Laptop making you infertile?
Just saying…16% of Cellphones Have Poop on Them
Before you type anything else into your keyboard, consider this: Keyboards, on average, are five times dirtier and have 60 times more germs on them than toilet seats. They are 150 times over the acceptable limit for bacteria. [From 16% of Cellphones Have Poop on Them] I guess that's what happens if you talk on the phone and change diapers at the same time. The phone is … [Read more...] about Just saying…16% of Cellphones Have Poop on Them