Here is the kindest, gentlest take down of the Huffington Post's "Wellness" section. For instance: "Huffington has distorted science and facts to serve a health agenda" and "the sum of the evidence suggests that distance healing is snake oil." Ouch! Ha. Wait, really? I CAN'T BE HEALED OF MY DISEASES BY SOMEONE VERY FAR AWAY, USING ONLY THEIR MIND? Anyway, the HuffPo crew goes on to talk about how "diversity of opinion" is important (even when those opinions are a shambles or, you know, socially dangerous!). It's very weird! And I suppose is its own kind of traffic-bait. Health kooks get traffic all over the Internets, from Urban Baby to the Deepak Chopra.

The kid is in the playpen, also known as the crib, where I dumped him. The playpen is also known, officially, as a "playard," sales-portmenteau-style for "play yard," because somewhere between the time I was wearing diapers and the time I started changing diapers, "pen" and its overtones were dumped as being retrograde. Who would pen a precious child? READ MORE