There's a strong instinct to pass on your own genes. For couples who conceive a child with a donated egg, the baby at least has the father's genes. Also, the mother goes through pregnancy and childbirth, making the donor egg child HER baby in every way but genetically.

As for the "adoption vs. egg donation" argument, that can be extended to any infertility treatment and even having your own biological children.

Give Gavin McInnes credit for walking a mile in someone else's shoes ... in this case, high heels. Real men put their money where their mouths are and he was good enough to apologize.

But Jezebel went easy on him. McInnes didn't have to walk a mile in pumps while wearing stockings and a constricting skirt and jacket and simultaneously juggling a purse, laptop briefcase, and cell phone.

Low E glass works pretty well to cut down the heat load in your house. If you're thinking about getting replacement windows, I highly recommend it. The temperature in the house dropped noticeably after our Low E insulated replacement windows were put in.

Central AC is more efficient than window units, especially if you spring for an energy efficient system with a high SEER rating. (The lower operating cost and energy efficient appliance tax break made up for the higher upfront cost.) Make sure that the unit is appropriately sized for your house! We run the AC with the temp set relatively high to lower the humidity and cool the air a bit. (Western Pennsylvania is pretty muggy in the summer.) We also use ceiling fans to circulate the air inside the house. Our electricity bill is about $30-40 higher in months when we use the AC a lot than in other months.

Also, some houses built before AC can be surprisingly comfortable in the heat. My house is a 1920s Craftsman-style bungalow. All of the bedrooms are corner rooms and have a nice cross-breeze, so fans cool things down pretty well. The house also has a deep front porch with a southerly exposure, which means that the living/dining room gets sun only in the winter and retains the cool of night. A couple of mature trees shade the east side of the house, too.

Part of the issue with home AC is that modern workplaces are mostly air conditioned. When I worked outdoors or in non-AC workplaces, I became accustomed to the heat, so having a non-air conditioned house wasn't that bad. Now that I work in an air conditioned office, my body doesn't get accustomed to the heat in the same way.

Yup, it was Anheuser-Bushch ... and InBev. Rolling Rock used to be brewed in Latrobe, PA (in "the glass-lined tanks of Old Latrobe") by the Latrobe Brewing Company, which was a subsidiary of InBev. InBev sold the Rolling Rock brand to Anheuser-Busch, which shuttered the Latrobe plant and moved production elsewhere.

Fortunately for the people of Latrobe, another brewer bought the plant. I believe they are currently brewing Sam Adams beer there under contract.

I've noticed this, too. A conservative friend once told me that he was against the estate and capital gains taxes because he hoped to be rich someday. At the time, he was working at an office job making an OK (but not great) salary. I tried to point out to him that, given the current economic conditions, he was unlikely to get rich any time soon and should focus more on his current economic state. But he just shrugged.

I just had my sons vaccinated for Hepatitis A because I don't want them to get sick or die from eating contaminated food. My older son got a meningitis vaccine because I don't want him to die or be crippled in a meningitis outbreak. My younger son got a chickenpox booster because my sister had serious chicken pox complications as a kid and I don't want that to happen to him. And my husband and I got tetanus-pertussis boosters so we're now safe from rusty nails and people who don't get their kids vaccinated for whooping cough. (And yes, I've seen a kid with pertussis out in public and heard the distinctive "whoop;" we tried to keep as far away from them as possible.)

Talk to members of your parents' and grandparents' generation to see what life was like before vaccination. There is a reason why older cemetaries are full of the graves of kids under 5 and newer ones aren't.

Classic 1980s concert films by The Talking Heads and Laurie Anderson. As toddlers, my kids loved them for their wacky visuals and off the wall songs.

They've got this guy's number!

I read Slate pretty regularly, too, so see you there!

.. that said "Slow down, my Mommy works here" and "Slow down, my Daddy works here." (Haven't seen them for a while, though.)