Ugh, it's impossible to stay up to date on politics nowadays

[conuly]

Why the Colonies’ Most Galvanizing Patriot Never Became a Founding Father

How Babywearing Went Mainstream

British Parliament Ditches Parchment for Paper

Debunking the Myth of 19th-Century ‘Tear Catchers’

Don't look down: NYPD unit does its work at dizzying heights

How Canada's 1st Women's Shelters Saved Women From Their Husbands

How African-Americans Disappeared From the Kentucky Derby

Where oil rigs go to die

Huge sinkholes are now appearing in the wrong places

Widespread vitamin D deficiency likely due to sunscreen use, increase of chronic diseases, review finds

Mongoose pups conceal identity to survive

Robert Reich: Now Trump Is Threatening the Independence of Judges

Historian Timothy Snyder: “It’s pretty much inevitable” that Trump will try to stage a coup and overthrow democracy

Educators value after-school program Trump wants to nix

Trump drops the mother of all bombs on libraries

For over a year, serial killing suspect went undiscovered (Unfortunately, the AP reused the original URL for a different article on the same subject, so you're stuck with this truncated one. I hate that the AP does that.)

Tillage farming damaging earthworm populations, say scientists

Locked Up for Being Poor

Gap growing between longest and shortest lifespans in the US

Comments

[gingicat]

*holds head in hands*

[wendelah1]

Here is a less-than-enthusiastic review of On Tyranny in the Guardian.

Since when has baby-wearing not been mainstream? Everyone I know with a baby had a Snuggli and that was 30 years ago.

For what it's worth, the cuts Trump proposed on libraries, NPR, National Endowment for the Arts, etc. did not get passed by Congress this time around.

The serial killer link leads to an article about squid.

[conuly]

1. I'd say that a snuggli is not exactly babywearing. It's hands-free babytoting, but not very ergonomic for you or the baby. (Ditto the bjorn.) That's why most people give those up before the baby is any real weight. You're not carrying a preschooler in those :)

2. Damn, I'll fix that link. Hold on.

[wendelah1]

Good point. We carried our son around in a backpack that was theoretically designed to hold a toddler until he was too heavy to carry in that, too. Carrying him around as a preschooler was never going to be an option, "ergonomic" or not. We were too old and infirm. LOL.