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Wednesday, April 25, 2007 12:00 AM

This little piggy

With Alec Baldwin's latest travails, the world wonders, "What's so wrong about name-calling, stupid?"
By Heather Havrilesky

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  • Tuesday, April 24, 2007 09:58 PM

    sniff sniff

    I'm tearing up with nostalgia! My mom was the beater (specialty tool: hairbrush) and my dad was the name-caller. Together they were great parents (and I guess the marriage was good, too, since they celebrated their 50th anniversary last year).

    And here's another annoying thing: where is the perspective? My four-year-old is constantly telling me that "stupid" is a bad word. I guess they told her that at preschool. I could shout, "You stupid mother fucker!" at her and she would no doubt tell me, "Stupid is a bad word!"

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