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Oh I think we need a pool here.

I’m taking April 3 7:55 PM Tiebreaker = 7lbs 3 oz

I’ve got April 5 3:45 AM. 8 lbs even.

Adam,

Congratulations in advance in becoming a father.

I’ve been lurking in the comments for many a year and have been following the news of Fonzie’s premiere closely. Yet last night, after I had put my two young ones to bed and I was folding laundry and trying to find the kitchen counter under the towers of dirty dishes while listening to last week-end’s WWDTM on my iPod, I realized that very soon i will no longer be able to ignore my job by reading Fanatic Apathy on a near daily basis. I had a prophecy about the coming rarity that will be your free time. The 2-3 times a week postings will become 1 or 2 monthly and that made me sad for me but happy for you. I’m sure you’ve had too many people tell you how transformative and wonderful it is to become a parent (us breeder can be so smug) so I’ll spare you. I will share one viewpoint - buy a good mattress if you don’t have one. Good sleep will be as good as sex - and just as rare.

Oh, another thing. Something no one warned me before the birth of my first kid: A lot a blood comes out after the kid comes out. It is very shocking to see blood come splashing out one’s wife but when it does don’t worry, it’s normal. Fainting in the delivery room is embarrassing.

We are helping move our first-and-only-born 1300 miles away this week, and I’m feeling a little woozy. Another step (but I’m guessing not the last) in introducing him to the world (Dean, this is the world. World, this is Dean. Step back, watch your head, and keep a fire extinguisher handy. And sorry about the mess.)

Here’s hoping Fonzie’s first introduction goes smoothly.

An interesting story by Biology professor PZ Myers about being expelled from Ben Stein’s creationist movie “Expelled”. O, the irony.

http://www.talkreason.org/articles/expelled.cfm

Nancy Regan endorsed John McCain today. How quaint. John McCain’s first wife, Carol, (the one that went face first through the windshield, ending her modeling career and then John divorced her) was Nancy’s secretary, back in the day. Small (almost incestuous) world, ain’t it?

Wow, Fanny’s on red alert tonight. It must have been the word “ince$tu0us”. Get a life, rodent! Oh well, Fonzie will be out among us soon and maybe, after he grows a little, he’ll take to carrying Fanny around by the tail and whacking her head on each door jam as he toddles from room to room. I can dream, can’t I?

I’ve got April 1st at 10:10 pm, with Fonzie coming in at 2 ounces under dee’s call.

Paula and Adam on together - love it!

So this reads as potentially someone who has an agenda or her own biases (I haven’t actually paid enough attention to know Maureen Dowd’s biases/postions or whether she just likes stirring up trouble) and it’s a little conspriracy theory-ish….but I’m really hoping it’s exaggerated cuz it mostly makes me sad (and angry/frustrated)…and I’m afraid it might not be too far from the truth.

“Even some Clinton loyalists are wondering aloud if the win-at-all-costs strategy of Hillary and Bill — which continued Tuesday when Hillary tried to drag Rev. Wright back into the spotlight — is designed to rough up Obama so badly and leave the party so riven that Obama will lose in November to John McCain.

If McCain only served one term, Hillary would have one last shot. On Election Day in 2012, she’d be 65.

Why else would Hillary suggest that McCain would be a better commander in chief than Obama, and why else would Bill imply that Obama was less patriotic — and attended by more static — than McCain?

Why else would Phil Singer, a Hillary spokesman, say in a conference call with reporters on Tuesday that Obama was trying to disenfranchise the voters of Florida and Michigan. “When it comes to voting, Senator Obama has turned the audacity of hope into the audacity of nope,” he said, adding, “There’s a basic reality here, which is we could have avoided the entire George W. Bush presidency if we had counted votes in Florida.” So is Singer making the case that Obama is as anti-democratic as W. was when he snatched Florida from Al Gore?

Some top Democrats are increasingly worried that the Clintons’ divide-and-conquer strategy is nihilistic: Hillary or no democrat.

(Or, as one Democrat described it to ABC’s Jake Tapper: Hillary is going for “the Tonya Harding option” — if she can’t get the gold, kneecap her rival.)”

In some ways I think that this is a terribly unfair assumption given all that Hillary has done for good, but I also have seen the desperate measures some people can do if they’re so close to something they’ve wanted so badly and sacrificed so much for….

For the good of the country and avoiding a war with Iran and for the children that I firmly believes she does care deeply for, she has got to pull back from the scorched earth campaign. I understand if she doesn’t just want to step aside and hand the nomination to barack. It’s her right to fight for it if she believes she would be the best president. However she needs to do that by showing why she’s the best, not by destroying the credibility of her opponent (ESPECIALLY by comparing him unfavorably to McCain) because there’s a larger picture out there: we need one of them (Hillary or Barack) in the oval office

Okay…my 2cents for the day. And I’ll pick April 1st at 4:30 am.
(cuz then I get my Adam fix on WWDTM and besides, if anyone should end up with an April Fools baby gift, it’s them)

Just rereading my post and wanted to clarify. I don’t think that Hillary and Bill are scheming to throw this election so she can win later. I don’t think that she has evil ulterior motives. I think she just wants to be president and believes she would be the better president and is fighting hard (and I think a little dirty, but that’s just my own opinion and probably politics as usual) to win it.

However I AM afraid that if she doesn’t win the nomination, she might have caused real damage to the democrats’ chance at winning in November because of the type of attacks she has made on Obama. And I therefore really wish she’d rethink her tactics.

Back to baby prognostication!!

(and Adam, I too was curious about WWDTM’s predilection for alliterative names. Is that the wherefore for “Fonzie”? Giving an early leg-up for panel membership?)

Gosh, Dan, I certainly hope so!

Becca, this recent Bosnia story about Hillary reminds me of a certain politician who seems genetically unable to admit to a mistake and stubbornly hangs on to a discredited position even when beaten over the head with the facts. My memory is particularly bad these days, so perhaps I “W”on’t be able remember this person’s name. I “W”ish I “W”ere better at recalling such details, but “W”hat is a girl to do “W”hen it just “W”on’t come to you?

I’m with Dale. March 31 is a good day. In fact, its a great day. A really great day. So good, in fact, that I’ve been celebrating my own birthday on it for some time now.

Me, Al Gore, Ewan McGregor, Rhea Perlman, Gabe Kaplan, Christopher Walken, Herb Alpert, Richard Chamberlain, Shirley Jones, Liz Claiborne, William Daniels, John Fowles, Andrew Marvell, and René Descartes–we all know the glories of the last magnificent day in March–a day of thinkers, poets, performers, and fashion designers.

I speak for all of them including Descartes (He’s dead, therefore he cannot object) when I say it would be an honor to add Fonzie to our merry crew!

Zee man. That was beyond funny.

Well, Chris … you know what they say about that René Descartes and all them philosopher types:

Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle.
Hobbes was fond of his dram,

Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed,
A lovely little thinker,
But a bugger when he’s pissed. …

This is why I was a history major.

“Sebastian Q.”

very nice. though i’ll admit a small amount of mourning for Fonzie Gromit.

And do tell the story behind the Q! Susie said you should.

Dave quotes from the sacred book of poets: And René Descartes was a drunken fart.
“I drink, therefore I am.”

I say: Hal-lo, Bruce!

Congratulations. A giant leap into the unknown. Nothing else is so difficult or gratifying.

So what’s the nickname?

Sticking my head out of the lurkers’ lounge to say “Mazel tov!”

(And Adam— be very, very nice to Jeannie for the next few days…or foreseeable future…)

Welcome, S.Q. - it’s a nice place, although a little noisy.

I’m buying a congratulatory round in the Lounge….

According to Wikipedia, in addition to being an Aries, baby Felber was also born under the Indian sign of fire, and the Chinese sign of the Dragon.

And Dee, according to your list, Sebastian has a very good chance of growing up to be a writer himself:

Robert Frost and A.E. Housman -poetry, Tennessee Williams - playwrite, Diana Ross and Steven Tyler - songwriters, Sandra Day O’Connor - legal opinions, and Martin Short - Comedy writers.

I personally don’t believe in astrology, but that’s quite encouraging for papa and the rest of the literary clan.