Calvin, pants, trolls and idiots

For those who don't read the comments on the Calvin & Hobbes strips, here is a really interesting article about Bill Watterson.

And EMS sells something they call Toaster Pants... rrrrrrr. Nice marketing job there, guys, I want 'em for the name alone. :)

I found out yesterday that there is indeed a childfree community here on LJ. The people there seem nice, overall, but as with many 'negative' communities it largely serves as a venting space (which means don't read if you don't want to hear people talking about breeders, sprogs, Moos and so forth in the same tones you may occasionally take when discussing, say, gay-haters or the devoutly religious or whatever group you find incomprehensible). Plus there are a few real troll-types. I joined, and think I will post there about my fears of losing friendships with those who choose children, but probably won't hang out there much. Oddly, if I did want to post a vent there today I would sure have something to say. I was reading an article on autism in the New Yorker, and read about this family who already had 2 autistic children out of 3, could not handle the finances or emotional strain, were already putting incredible drains on the system plus were miserable/overwhelmed themselves, and what did they do? They had another fucking baby! Talk about the height of irresponsible breeding... and sure enough, that baby's now been diagnosed with PDD NOS, a disease on the autism spectrum that is severe but stops short of full autism. Gahhhh. You just don't read about idiocy that monumental every night before bedtime. :-/