All the proposed solutions to this involve finding new ways to warn parents, such as alarms on the car seats or weight-sensor alarms in the cars themselves. However, there's been at least one case where the father drove to work, forgot the baby in the back, and repeatedly ignored the car's motion-detector alarm because he thought it was malfunctioning. Most of these cases happen because of a change (often only for that one day) in the parents' routine. So s/he is already off balance, probably in a hurry, and likely to tune out any further distractors. A solution that doesn't rely on the parent(s) would be better.

What about a car sensor that would open all the car windows? Or maybe a car or carseat sensor that could "call" pre-programmed phone numbers until someone answered or went to the car/carseat (defaulting to 911, with a gps reading, if nobody picked up after ten minutes). Or both, combined.

I agree with Callahan that there's a continuum, but I don't think everyone is intersex. Callahan's statement would seem to show his own rigid views of male and female, if he truly believes nobody fits perfectly into those definitions. Kinsey's sexual orientation continuum had 0s and 6s on it, Callahan's continuum should be similarly open-minded.

I agree with racetoinfinity; I was surprised to see sexual "preference" rather than sexual orientation.

dmn660 brings up a child who has had no surgical intervention having to shower with peers. Am I the only person in America who got all the way through twelfth grade without ever having to shower in school?

If I had an intersex child, I'd delay any surgical intervention until puberty (or 18, if s/he hadn't made a strong decision). 50% chance of being wrong is just too much and the consequences are often tragic (remember David Reimer). I'd give the kid a unisex name and announce his/her gender as female (less physical bullying in school, physical shyness more acceptable). If the school district had the sort of shower policy everyone else seems to have suffered, I'd simply get the kid's doctor to write a permanent gym excuse.

The little girl wanted to speak at her father's funeral. She gave the shortest, plainest, and most moving goodbye of the evening. It was beautiful; an eleven-year-old's version of what most of us would want to say about our fathers. Couldn't you leave that alone?

Judy Berman, you should be ashamed of yourself. Salon, you should be ashamed as well, for publishing an article that sounds like the scribblings of a message board troll.

What have you done towards creating "a more humanist liberation approach that seeks the well being of all by maximizing opportunity for all"? What have you done towards equality between men and women? Or do you regard that as women's work?

pastorhorace, I'm saying that if you feel that men are discriminated against, you should start a movement to change that. Feminists work on eliminating discrimination against women. Opponents of your anti-death penalty group wouldn't argue that it should also campaign against highway litter and drunk driving; feminists shouldn't be expected to campaign for causes other than their own either.

Svutlov, I don't think girls will be valued as much as boys until/unless:

1. Most of the work in the country/region in question does not rely on upper-arm strength, and

2. Women start passing down their last name to children at least half the time, so parents don't know when a child is born whether s/he will pass on the family name when s/he grows up.

There are four radio plays, "Lost Souls", "Asylum", "Golden Age" and "The Dead Line", between Season 2 and Season 3. I don't know if they were broadcast anywhere in America, but the torrent(s) is easy enough to find.

I think Captain Jack is hot and I love Gwen Cooper's accent. I don't care if it's cheesy :P

The nation could have had a very necessary discussion about police bullying. Police somehow think they have the right to waste police resources and a citizen's time on a false arrest if that citizen didn't "show proper respect" (i.e. be submissive and obsequious). Blacks are expected to show a higher level of "proper respect" than whites, but whites are victims of police bullying too.

I do find it interesting that the pro-Crowley people insist that it would all have been ok if only Gates had shown his ID, even if the article they're responding to clearly states that Gates showed two forms of ID. Look up the Just World Fallacy.

It's convenient when someone follows the statement, "I know what you’re thinking: I’m a pushover. I’m weak," with, "I went through Pitocin-induced natural childbirth. And a Caesarean section without follow-up drugs." It shows that she is weak. Not physically, but in an inability to resist social pressure. She went without drugs after major surgery just for the social pats on the back other women would give her for that. Of course she's willing to do anything to keep her husband around and avoid the social stigma of divorce.

Yes, Janice, everyone should read this. However, most Salon readers won't even see it, because it's in the pink ghetto. Worthy, but marginal.