Did you hear the one about Blagojevich and the hair brush? Apparently he was known to erupt into cursing fits if his employees forgot his black Paul Mitchell hairbrush which he called "the football". You can read it in the Times, I swear I didn't make it up.

Turns out Scorpios get more asthma, but Astrology Isn’t to blame.

The Motherlode blog on the Times site writes about an upcoming 20/20 program that airs on Jan. 2 on ABC on Orgasmic Birth and the commenters go so wild it prompts another post.

President Bush gets not one but two shoes thrown at him while on a surprise visit in Iraq, check out the BBC video here to watch his fairly amazing ducking reflexes.

More from the world of children's cookbooks - cause if you want them to try it everyone seems to agree that your best bet is to have them cook it.

Tree Hugger reports on Nickelodeon's new online videogame, The Big Green Help Global Challenge.  The idea is that in addition to playing a game kids make real-world pledges and commitments to volunteer time and learn about green initiatives.

Can't decide whether to have your kid be the youngest or the oldest in their kindergarten class? This article in the Times on redshirting, the practice of holding young children back from kindergarten in order to increase their odds of success in school, givesr easons why this increasingly popular trend of extending childhood has some potentially very bad societal side effects.

A bunch of travel bloggers have joined together to raise money for children all over the world this Holiday season. Passports with Purpose is one enormous raffle event with some amazing prizes. There are travel related prizes, like 4 nights in Waikiki, or a cooking class and dinner in NYC,  plus lots of baby gear and kid prizes. Each ticket is just $10 and all the money will go to Heifer International, a great charity that helps create sustainable food sources for families living in poverty.  Snatch up some of these great prizes, while doing good, here.