How Do You Jew

can i see this?

Dear God, what is this country coming to?

Direct from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, our favorite nanny government agency: Serious Head Injuries Prompt Recall of Bumbo Baby Sitter Seats.

Here’s the relevant excerpt:

Hazard: If the seat is placed on a table, countertop, chair, or other elevated surface, young children can arch their backs, flip out of the Bumbo seat, and fall onto the floor, posing a risk of serious head injuries.

And here’s my favorite bit, as a Bumbo user with a working brain:

The back of the seat contains the following “WARNING” – “Never use on a raised surface. Never use as a car seat or bath seat. Designed for floor level use only.

Did you get that? The warning is about people who put their kids in the Bumbo seat ON A RAISED SURFACE, when the chair has a warning printed right on it reading “NEVER USE ON A RAISED SURFACE.”

It would make me sad, except that the people who do this to their children shouldn’t reproduce in the first place.

In Cuba, Finding a Tiny Corner of Jewish Life (thanks, Aba).

I’m spending time these days - between work, life at home, and catching up on the last couple of weeks of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report - tweaking the links, categories, and other items in the HowDoYouJew domain so it looks nice and professional before I announce it to the world. I realize as I write this, though, that part of the point of the site is to engage with my audience and respond to ideas, advice, requests, suggestions, and feedback. So I’ll be finishing the mass email shortly and sending it out, and I’ll continue tweaking after I go “live.”

That’s “Holy Cow!” for you non-Hebrew speakers. I’m just a little excited about getting Wordpress working on this latest try. I wish I knew what was different from all those times I tried at home… except for the fact that I’m at the office. Shhh!