Sensitivity Training

After a week of morning radio deejays and local newscasters making ridiculously tasteless and insensitive jokes about the language of Iceland, it’s time for some knowledge. While I cannot expect every American to have a functional understanding of Icelandic, one word can’t be that hard.

Say it with me now: Ay-yah-fyal-la-yo-kool

In fact, five of the six syllables are common American social grunts. So it shouldn’t be that hard, right Chip Chipperson? Mad Dawg and The Screw?

Best Article about Baby Names of 2009

Babies are born every minute of every year, in every country of the world. But during the month of December, those babies suddenly and magically need names, and those names often fall into lists. Let’s name some babies!

Names I Call Other People’s Dogs

Scraps, skittles, patches, piddles, puddles, snuggles, sprinkles, giggles, pickles, sniffles, kitty