Well, it's not slowing her down.

So, last night Kouryou-chan gets her first bath since the burn, and I get a good look at her hand. It's healing extremely well. I want the pill that makes my cells go back to that kind of youthful vigour as readily as hers do. One can still see the marks, but the browning has almost faded and the glossiness has retreated somewhat. She's unafraid to use the hand, which by itself is a good sign, sealed as it is within a gauzy mitten loaded with silver sulfadiazine.

Before the bath, we took her to Kidopolis, one of those kids-only padded super jungle-gyms where she could roughhouse as much as she wanted. The hand was barely an impediment to climbing the netted tunnels, padded spirals with two-foot intervals, and rope ladders. ( TMI Alert )

I read Sleeping Beauty and Thomas the Tank Engine to her before putting her to bed-- the latter is surprisingly demanding as it expects the reader to keep an enormous amount of detail in his head about whom is doing what at any given time, and if you lose track, the story loses all comprehensibility. I know they're considered "classics," but not all classics are so difficult to read. It needs an editor.

She slept in her own bed, seems to have overcome most of her cough, and didn't get up in the middle of the night that I know of. All good signs that the crisis is going to be behind us very soon.

"Legalized Polyamory"

In National Review, the unofficial organ of Catholic American conservatism and the flagship outlet of William F. Buckley, Stanley Kurtz wrings his hands at an impending Canandian court case that would recognize familial rights to three people (two women and one man) with respect to a child.

Legalized polyamory means still another radical increase in the difficulties of children. And polyamorists are already organized and ready to take advantage of any opening in the law.
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The logic of gay marriage leads inexorably to the end of marriage, and the creation in its place of an infinitely flexible series of contracts. Monogamous marriage cannot function if it is just one of many social arrangement. Marriage as an institution depends for its successful functioning upon the support and encouragement that the ethos of monogamy receives from society as a whole. If anything can be called a marriage -- including group marriage -- then the ethos of monogamy that keeps families together will have been broken, and the social reinforcement that is the essence of marriage itself will be gone. Again, it is children who will pay the price.

Read the rest at Heather has 3 Parents.

Agree or disagree with Kurtz, it's important to keep track of what he and people like him are saying as oppositional arguments to the matter.

Life Explained

ROFL!

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