So apparently the NYT's City Blog printed a "Complaint Box" post last week in which the author went AWF on loud-mouthed, smug parents:

"We see them everywhere. And if we’re being honest, we have all had the same frightening and ignoble urge to smash their heads in with a brick. I am speaking about those smug and uber-informative moms and dads who do their parenting in public places — aggressively and at the top of their highly educated lungs."

DAYM, Susan Goldberg...smash their heads in with a brick?! And you ppl think I have anger issues?

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This NYT story yesterday about getting your dog surgically debarked (having their vocal chords severed) was E-V-E-R-Y-W-H-E-R-E. And, mostly, people seemed pretty outraged.

Unsurprisingly, I too think its retarded and horrible.

And I speak as someone who has seen both sides of it. In fact, Oliver has a major barking problem. But here's the thing: its not just a "barking problem"...its tied in with the fact that he has separation anxiety and is a widdle biddy baby who doesn't like to be left alone. Shut your traps though...he's MY widdle biddy baby, and its actually a really big deal for him. And the way this manifests itself in our case, is that he barks. And barks, and barks and barks.

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photo: Stephen Brown/Brooklyn Paper

This shit kinda makes me rethink the Hasidic driver post.

Some nice BREEDER picked up like two dozen "Kill Jews" strips of paper strewn along Sixth Avenue yesterday before turning them over to the police.

Daym, people.

(via The Brooklyn Paper)

Yo, I just walked my ass over to Duane Reade to get a fucking digital thermometer....99.9, bitches.

So, yeah, I'm not feelin so good. But emails like this *always* make me feel better.

From a FIPS reader:

"At around 4:30 today I was walking up 8th Ave with my two kids and I saw this police car turn the wrong way down Montgomery Place.  Then this guy came running out of his building to flag down the officer because he apparently had placed a call to them to report a man riding his bicycle up and down 8th ave "singing loudly, talking to people strangely and CARRYING A CHAINSAW!"  My 4-year-old son was fascinated by this story but I have to wonder, did anyone else see this??????"

Uhm, did you?? Because, if so, I NEED TO KNOW RIGHT FUCKING NOW.

Also, I gotta ask: Cool or not cool: riding your bike with a chainsaw? [I vote not cool, FYI].

As we've documented, there's nothing I enjoy more than fighting in the comments with self-important BREEDERS who claim that it's RIDICULOUS and OFFENSIVE for me to assume that there is ANY self-importance amongst their group AT ALL (even as they are brilliantly illustrating this self-importance in the very comments that they are leaving).

But even a smartass BALLER like myself was pretty shocked to come across the following information on our fave blog STFU Parents: there are actually BREEDERS out there who expect people to go through all the necessary steps of "child proofing" their home, before they will come over and grace it with the presence of their bebes.

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Look, bitches: I tried really hard to not post about this blog--Planet Awesome Kid. REALLY hard.

But then I started clicking around, and before I knew it my gag reflex was engaged, and well....here we are.

I mean, duh...all the kids featured on this blog *are* v. friggin cute; and I'm sure its author is well intentioned, fashion forward, and lovely IRL. BUT, is it me, or is it a little odd to be blogging about the fashion "choices" of children WHO HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE what they are wearing to begin with? And are likely taking a shit in their pants moments after their "fashion photo" is snapped?

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