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Food Emporium, Wednesday, 8PM, UES 6 Year-Old Girl: I hate this place! Why do we have to come here! Dad: How do you think all that food gets to our kitchen? Magic? 6 Year-Old Girl: Well, I’m gonna wish that every night everybody’s kitchen fills up with food so nobody has to ever come here ever ever ever again! Dad: …

Readers of the site Parent Dish would rather leave their kids in the care of Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi than any other celebrities. Ellen and Portia received 31 percent of the vote, nine points above runner-up Jennifer Aniston, followed by Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Rachel Ray, and Oprah Winfrey. Alias star Jennifer Garner was named the best …

A fertility clinic with offices in LA and NYC is about to begin offering its clients the ability to choose their baby’s gender, hair color, and eye color. Dr. Jeff Steinberg has already let thousands decide their kids’ gender. Now he says that within the next six months, the Manhattan and L.A. offices of his Fertility Institutes will let would-be …

I have to admit, I’m enjoying watching the right-wing blogs spins themselves into an ethical dither over the California octuplets story. Unmarried mother of 14! But she didn’t kill the babies! The family is from Iraq! But it’s a gift from God! The whole lot will end up on welfare! A lot of the commenters on Free Republic are somehow …

Remember, healing comes from Jeebus. Except, you know, when it doesn’t. The three siblings of a girl who died of diabetes that went untreated as her parents prayed instead of taking her to a doctor have been removed from the home during an investigation, police said Friday. The parents and social services experts agreed the move would be best for …