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[oball]

Achewood is now entirely a comic about having a baby.

[jaydub]

Its always tough to judge when extreme circumstances merit suspension of ordinary rules of etiquette.  Fortunately, I rarely consult my manager in such events.  I'm decisive that way.

[wombat]

Beef's side of the argument makes perfect sense to me. I guess that's why I don't have children.

[Golfhaus]

"But there is no bad time NOT to have a baby" is basically treasure. And I fully appreciate the irony of saying that with a pregnant Mrs. Haus next to me.

[CortJstr]

An acquaintance of mine actually used the "we're not really prepared but poor people seem to do OK so we decided to just go for it" argument. Of course the couple were both huge indie-hipster eternally-in-grad-school douches.

[Arachno-capitalist]

I am unable to imagine a scenario or point in my life where I will be willing to sign up for creating something that will yell at me for years and then take all of my money.

[Victoria Waterfield]

You forget putting you in the Springfield Retirement Home in there.

That has already been promised (threatened) to me.

Have you been hit with the crooked home that they saw on 60 Minutes yet?

[jay-ell]

That argument is not as bad as it seems. You can never be freaking ready, really.

And if you think you are HAHAHAHAHA! SURPRISE!

Uhhh, no. No you are not.

Is so true. 

I took drugs to help me get pregnant the first time, I was so "ready."  But I still had that "OH DAMN WHAT DID I DO" moment about twice a week for...

Hell, I STILL have those, and he's three and half, and I even did it again since then.  Now I look at them both and go..."How exactly did this happen...twice?" 

That's the miracle of children.  You love them to pieces, would give your whole life to save theirs, but you can't quite figure out why. 

[oball]

By keeping your children alive until they have bred you are ensuring the propagation of your genetic material.

It's all in Dawkins, people.

[Arachno-capitalist]

That's the miracle of children.  You love them to pieces, would give your whole life to save theirs, but you can't quite figure out why. 

I'm still not seeing the upside here.

[colmore]

Of course the couple were both huge indie-hipster eternally-in-grad-school douches.

Wait.  I thought being loosely attached to a party subculture while having an educational institution foot most of the bill was 'winning your twenties' and not 'being a douche.'

[Arachno-capitalist]

An acquaintance of mine actually used the "we're not really prepared but poor people seem to do OK so we decided to just go for it" argument. Of course the couple were both huge indie-hipster eternally-in-grad-school douches.

Jay Ell is not a douche. Take that back.

[CortJstr]

It is certainly possible to attend grad school and not be a douche. It's even possible to be a hipster and not be a douche. But these two take things to infuriating extremes. Plus they think they're better than you. And they haven't even met you. But they aren't afraid to tell you the many ways they are better.

[littlefallsmets]

Let us just admit that both of these things improve the chances of being a douche without necessarily guaranteeing douchehood.

(I have not been posting much lately because we went through a crisis where my brother had a seizure, the doctors briefly believed he had a malignant tumor which was then... re-examined down to a malformation of the veins in the brain that is potentially very dangerous but is basically quite treatable with a lot of work and time and seizure meds in the interm. So, like, I hope you did not miss my wordiness. The wordiness will slowly return.)

[wombat]

Wait.  I thought being loosely attached to a party subculture while having an educational institution foot most of the bill was 'winning your twenties' and not 'being a douche.'

Are you saying there is some association between being in grad school and partying? WTF. Why didn't I go to that grad school? No one I know went to that grad school.

LFM, your brother has what that character in Six Feet Under had? I hated that show. The last thing I needed to know was that there were not only brain tumors to worry about, but strange things wrong with the veins in your brain. Hope he is OK.