Parents of the NYT

This quote encapsulates what bothers me about all of the recent NYT articles about parenting:

'Sonia, for one, likes to contribute her two cents. “It’s nice because I feel like I’m not being spoken down to,” she said. “Ninety-five percent of the time I feel most kids are spoken down to.”'

In other words, the children represented by the article--those whose parents look to them for advice about what the hippest consumer products are, basically--make up about 5 % of the population (if we, like her mother, think Sonia knows what's what; which, apparently, I do, at least in this case).

I'm so out of here

I just heard the weather report: it's supposed to snow Thursday, Friday, Saturday AND Sunday.

Not that it would make a stitch of difference

If I were a member of the White House press corps, here are some things I would ask his royal highness:

• You say that setting a date for withdrawal from Iraq sends the message that we're quitters. Are there any circumstances in which you would set a date for withdrawing from a war? Are all wars to be fought to the finish, in your mind?
• If it's your prerogative to hire and fire US Attorneys at will, are you confirming that these are entirely political positions? That hiring or firing US Attys for purely political reasons is quite all right with you?
• How did someone with Monica Goodling's less-than-mediocre legal background get to be the Attorney General's Counsel? Is this OK with you? (These questions aren't really about Monica Goodling, but about Bushie priorities in hiring. But check out the link if you don't already know where she came from--it's worth it.)
  
• What does democracy mean to you?
  

NOTE: I didn't actually listen to today's press conference, and for all I know these questions were asked. I just needed to get them off my chest.