Crib Sheet
A weekly roundup of events in parentsville, including the good, the bad, and the utterly trivial.
The baby-making business -- or more precisely, the avoidance thereof -- saw a lot of action this week. After last week's decision upholding a federal ban of an abortion procedure, the Supreme Court added insult to injury, ordering several lower courts that had found similar laws to be unconstitutional to toe the line or else. Meanwhile, for the first time in its history, Mexico City said yes to choice, thumbing its nose at the Pope, who threatened excommunication.
Mexico City has like 9 million people. That's a lot of souls to condemn to eternal damnation. The Pope decided he'd better make some room by signing the transfer papers of babies who died unbaptized. They'd been languishing in limbo -- a kind of celestial airport waiting room -- for the last 800 years; now they get to go to Heaven. What a nice guy.
Speaking of nice guys, Alec Baldwin had a busy week begging the forgiveness of his daughter, fans and the world in general for his parenting "faux pa." Everyone, that is, except Kim Basinger, who, Alec explains, basically forced him to call his 11-year-old daughter a "rude thoughtless little pig." That [bleeped by Russell Simmons].
Speaking of pig-like behavior, food commercials cause kids to spend a lot more time at the junk food trough. Especially the fat kids. Must ... stuff ... faaaaace ... But what food commercials giveth, the government wants to taketh away. A ban on junk food and drink in school vending machines may be in the works, thanks to a report sent to Congress on Wednesday. Food brought from home would be exempt. The lunchbox council must be thrilled.
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