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Re: and what about the pedestrians?
It is so nice to hear someone else say these words! I live in cyclist-friendly town in Ohio and here I find most cyclists are a menace because they DON'T ride on the roads. Instead, they ride on the sidewalks! These entitled brutes insist on ''playing chicken'' with pedestrians instead of using the wide streets, most with bike paths! As an ...
Posted to Transport by finalword on October 23, 2009
Bicycle Traffic Rules
I think the writer is off the mark. It may be that without vehicles we wouldn't need stop signs, but it is silly to say that cyclists as a group should be able to ignore traffic signals. Pedestrians can't ignore them. And there's a good reason to pay attention, and obey, traffic laws. They protect the safety of all of us, but most particularly ...
Posted to Transport by smckinn on October 20, 2009
Playpen during holidays...
In the 1980's, we always took a playpen with us when we traveled to grandparent homes that were not baby-proof, and our babies slept safely in the playpen. However, the best use of the playpen came at Christimas time. In our otherwise baby-proof home, we put the Christmas tree in the playpen! Ornaments were safe from the baby. The baby was safe ...
Posted to Family by Xenaxena on August 17, 2009
Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia
I was surprised to see that the article didn't mention Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia (CPVT), another cardiac condition that also suddenly kills otherwise healthy adolescents and young athletes. We need to take more serious local, national, and international efforts in making available automated external defibrillators in ...
Posted to Medical Examiner by cprxmm77 on February 9, 2009
These statistics are skewed
What I want to know is why the parent's bed is grouped with sofas and couches. Sofas are a very dangerous place to sleep with your child, because parents usually wedge the child between them and the back of the couch so the child doesn't roll off. The child then becomes crushed by the parent and suffocates. I'm sure if you were to look at ...
Posted to What's Up, Doc by Lazurii on February 6, 2009
Reasoning
Alright guys enough of this bantering back and forth. Plenty of people seem to have a friend who's child died from accidental suffocation or knows someone who had it happen or something of that nature, and I certainly don't undermine your suffering. It is truly tragic when anyone dies unexpectedly before their time, much less someone that young. ...
Posted to What's Up, Doc by SarahSim on February 6, 2009
Proposition 8 Results
I am shocked, apalled, & awakened! First of all, I am black and proud of it. Obama was equally elected for president of the USA by the will of the people. Now, there are only few folks who want to overturn the legal passaged of proposition 8 by an illegal act of force! Proposition was legally passed by the will of the people, for the ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by rich777 on November 9, 2008
Dahlia Lithwick Uses Recipes to Write a Legal Column About..
... ABORTION. Lithwick's very idea that women do not have reproductive choice, if they cannot extinquish the life growing in their own wombs, is in and of itself faulty. I mean, my God, did the female have sex with the guy, or did she not? As to being ''for change'' in everything but pro-Abort American policies at home and abroad, not everyone ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard2 on August 21, 2008
Scooter
The best possible thing for the Scooter LW to do is talk to her local motorcycle or scooter dealership and find out where the nearest MSF Basic Rider Course is offered. The Motorcycle Safety Foundation offers EXCELLENT classes for people who want to learn to ride motorcycles and scooters. They cover the basics of how to ride (from ''how to start ...
Posted to Dear Prudence by hibousoir on August 14, 2008
Re: Too undisciplined for much independence
This is a reply to the thread taken as a whole: My father remembers getting bullied and beat up and left bloodied and coatless in the school yard in the late 50's and early 60s. Kids would be smoking and doing as they pleased. There were no ''discipline problems'' because all the teachers were taking their breaks, too. Some amount of supervision ...
Posted to Family by playgroundconfidential.com on April 22, 2008

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