Off-topic

Just now watching the Today Show where they have a child safety expert not unlike the one on The Simpsons who came to babyproof the house. She just told Matt Lauer that a child could pull off the outlet covers and choke on them. She's not offering any safe alternatives, she's just going around pointing out how safety products can kill a child.

My childhood home (and only home) did not have cabinet locks, outlet covers, infant car seats or any of that. Before I was 10, I had sat on a floor heater, run face first into a brick wall, fallen into holes in the sidewalk, stuck my finger in an exposed outlet in a darkened bathroom on accident, been impaled by a rusty nail, fallen off a car and accidentally left behind in several places. But I never had the urge to put a fork in an outlet or shove small things in my mouth and choke.

I also had a fever of 108, had double pneumonia twice, chicken pox and some strange spasm which caused me to vomit involuntarily and at odd times, like hiccups.

Hmmm, misadventure or virus? Which seemed more likely to kill me?

I can honestly say that aside from the stitches in my head from the face vs. brick wall incident, it was high-powered cooties that kept bringing me to the hospital.

And yet all these parents are running around bubble-wrapping their houses and refusing to vaccinate their children. Dumbasses! My doctor told me that when they finally do get a parent that cares enough about their child to bring them in for vaccinations, they have to include whooping cough and polio vaccines because so many people are refusing to poke their kids that there's been a sharp increase in these diseases. Diseases which a developed nation should have eradicated forty years ago.

Yeah, okay. Keep on needing a special spoon to tell you the temperature of your infant's food instead of just feeling it, people. You're just forcing me to consider India as a retirement possibility.