Anyone else see...

Also, it's a real bringdown for readers who lack confidence in their own opinions.

All of this disemvowelling is giving me consonant dissonance.

@44 for Mekkio:

Of course I cannot speak for them, but I think the couple's desire to have a child overruled the father's need to identify as a male.

One can argue the option to adopt, but their family profile might make it difficult (especially considering the doctors' receptiveness) to find approval.

They had one perfectly good uterus & set of eggs between the two, so I think this was a logical decision to make. They are having a child (with very little in the way of artificial methods) that will inherit the genetic code of at least one parent.

As far as childbirth being a female experience, now being experienced by a man, I don't think he could ever have forgotten that he was once female in gender & sex regardless. This could be treated as a temporary return to that state for the greater good of the family as a whole.

I hope that helps.

For #6 posted by ivan256 :

Actually, Thomas IS transgender. Gender can be a fluid, malleable thing that some believe doesn't even exist in binary form.

Sex is the physical manifestation of your genetic code. However, even this definition has its pitfalls, if there are disruptions or multiplications in the expression of the code.

And, although you can't change the expression, you can change the manifestation, hence transexuals.

I cannot wait until they have an online store!

Wow. Just to prove how bereft I am of any maternal instincts: Before I looked at all those posters side by side, I thought all babies looked the same.

The Dramatic Chipmunk is neither dramatic nor a chipmunk. Discuss...

Awww. I can only hope that, when I mature from a little nerd spawn into a happy mutant, I might be as hip as these four. And am thusly pressed against Takuan's bosom.

Points to the first blog who uses

"BIL & TED's Most Excellent Conference Adventure"

to review both events and hurt everyone's punny bones.

(I can almost hear the sound of BoingBoing's parcel of the blogosphere not laughing.)

Actually, just give the points to me.

@GabrielM: I think that xhcd comic was once boing'd actually.

What business does the government have approving names?

"Terrorpig, terrorpig. Does whatever a terrorpig does."

Aww. BoingBoing looks so cute next to Digg, Google, meebo & Compendium. They're like a little web app family now.

I'm afraid I may have missed most of the readers by catching this a day late, however, I heartily agree with #45 & #25. Since comments were introduced, I'm noticing reading comprehension is not a strong point in this audience.

Michael Pollan's prior book, The Omnivore's Dilemma, traces organic produce & food substances back to their source. I am currently reading it, and it's a real eye-opener into what phrases like "organic" and "cage-free" could really mean, or what "buying local" entails.

Some of the questions raised by readers of In Defense of Food might actually already have been answered by this first book on the subject, which was mentioned in the beginning of the post.

Ironically, this sounds a little bit more effective than the D.A.R.E. program.

Small-time dealers would find other employment if they had to pay insurance premiums.

@Antinous

"Did I say seitan? I meant, spam. I love spam."

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I think we've strayed from the point that was introduced with this entry to something equivalent to meat fanboyism.