Too bad Divine is dead. She'd be all over this.

Is nothing more typical of liberal culture to worry about every nit and nut of childhood culture?  Yes, toys like wooden blocks and bags of dirt are much better than dolls that poop.  But, who is to say that a child can't have both?

my oldest son has spent more hours with blocks than anything else, even at the age of 6 he still spends hours with them, more complex or games with defined rules end up in the toy box very quickly, so Eve you are definitely onto something.

OK, I'm sorry, but if I can't use this post to casually mention my own blog posting on the subject, then what good is a pooping doll doing to society, anyway?

bleakonomy.blogspot.com/.../ho-boy.html

Maybe the dolls utitlity is in identifying girls with scatological tendencies. Surely, this calls for a new entry in the  DSM-IV. (Or the DSM-V). What a great tool! Snicker, snicker

Blackie:

Quite a clever boy. Takes after his mother? :-D

This is being hailed as a "technological advance" in toys?  Or is it a "sociological' advance in that it's trying to show you the "reality" of having a baby. Not just a cute thing to dress up and take around with you like a chihuahua accessory or whatever.  I want to know if that shit stinks and/or stains.  I want to know if that baby gets a rash if you don't change it or wipe the crap off.  It's kind of like that egg or bag of flour experiment they do with high school kids every now and then, no?

As an aside, MY favorite toys were: Spirograph (didn't choke on the small pieces or lose an eye with the little green topped pins), Legos (man are those sets expensive these days! and the Star Wars one that my nephew just received has more instructions than furniture from IKEA!) and LightBrite (also didn't choke on those little guys either).

My nephew is also obsessed with Bakugan but he doesn't battle them the way the program is teaching you (I just learned all this this past few days).  He engages their figures in his own world and stories. But then again, he would probably be able to do that with Eve's Jesus figure too.  Which is bland compared to Soccer Jesus, Hockey Jesus, etc. If you haven't seen these, check this:

www.catholicshopper.com/.../inspirational_sport_statues.html

oh and I just found this (click through the intro):

www.wearefishermen.com

That's what Fairbanks looks like? A typical liberal - let me guess, she shops at Whole Foods, drinks lattes, and drives a Subaru.  Wow, I guess stereotypes really do hold water, despite what the thought police/PC crowd would have you think.