The Breast Milk Baby has hit U.S. shelves.
One of the newest innovations in the baby-doll world, the Breast Milk Baby was released Friday by the Spanish toy company Berjuan Toys.
The doll cries and burps like any other doll, but there’s one feature that sets it apart.
I have noticed several stories in the Lariat lately about people with autism.
While I am thrilled that you are raising awareness for this disorder, I think it’s important that you find out how to talk about it in a sensitive way.
The title of one story in today’s issue, for example, began with the phrase “autistic families.” This is not at all the correct way to talk about autism and can be considered offensive.
Families are not autistic…one individual in the family is (or several may be).
Thank goodness that’s over.
The presidential campaign of 2012 did not in fact last long enough to be measured in geologic time, but poll-scarred and ad-weary voters can, perhaps, be forgiven for feeling as if it did.
Barack Obama and his supporters will be, understandably, jubilant that his lease on that Pennsylvania Avenue mansion has been extended for four more years. But Tuesday night’s vote is also noteworthy for a reason only tangentially related to the fortunes of the incumbent president.
If someone doesn’t like a particular circumstance, he is told, “It is what it is,” and that’s the end of it.
In sports, “it is what it is” describes the numbers on the scoreboard after the game. You win or you lose and afterward. It is what it is.
In the world of journalism, that black and white statement begins to gray beyond wins and losses.
In response to the editorial of Nov. 7, “For America’s sake let’s all support President Obama,” it behooves me to explain that when I think of the phrase “I support you,” it is associated with feelings and abstract solidarity that I might offer to friends in time of need.
The night of Oct. 29, students received a text from the university.
It said that an armed man was being sought by police near campus. Later reports from the police said that shots were fired in the incident.
Dear Baylor student at the homecoming pep rally:
First of all, I applaud you for wearing your Baylor Line jersey and for showing Baylor spirit.
I feel it important that, despite our losing record, the fans still exhibit pride for the university. However, there were two things that I did not approve of and, frankly, found inappropriate for a pep rally.
Well, I sure got that one wrong.
Four years ago, on the eve of the last presidential election, I wrote in this space of how the country has spent much of the last three decades “re-litigating” the 1960s, arguing over the changes wrought in that decade.
