The news just keeps getting worse for the Girl Scouts. First some jerk started paying for cookies with fake money — now some guy in a ski mask robbed some Girl Scouts who were selling cookies outside of a grocery store in Alaska. According to the Juneau Empire, the girls and their troop leader...

Delicious though they may be, Girl Scout Cookies are not recession-proof. Sales are down by as much as half according to one troop leader. "The Girl Scouts are not immune to the economy," said Sharon Bellinger, spokeswoman for the Girl Scouts of Connecticut. As if that weren't enough to deal with, s...

They say it takes a village to raise a child. Well, it also takes a village — at best a supportive community, and at the least a few very good friends — to keep a person sane and happy. All of us need companionship, which is exactly why teenagers are texting their friends in the middle o...

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"This Week in Your Mom" is a new segment I just came up with where I search long and hard (the same way your mother likes it) to find the best headline of the week regarding your mother. Actually not your mother, just someone's mother. This week we go to San Diego where we find Janet Daily (pictured...

I'm busy selecting songs for Youngest's Brownie troop to sing on Saturday at our town's annual holiday shop. We'll be on stage for about 30 minutes, singing traditional Christmas songs. Do you know just how hard it is to find a version of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" that isn't weird? Every "arti...

The threat: bone-chillingly radical feminist Girl Scouts. Mississippi-based Christian “news” service One News Now claims to offer up “news without the liberal bias”. It also offers up news without that dastardly word “gay”, as Jeff Fecke and Melissa have noted at ...

About three months ago I received an email with a most unusual request: A woman named Catherine Jones from High Point, North Carolina wanted to know if I would take her and her girl scout troop of seven girls aged 15-21 on a tour and also find out details on how I could I become their best friend in...

The Girl Scouts of Troop 2601 request the pleasure of your company at a tea party celebrating Mother’s Day Saturday, May 10 1-3 p.m. R.S.V.P. My Junior Girl Scouts hosted a Mother's Day Tea at our house today for their end of the year party. Note how the invitation says from 1-3 p.m. Somehow I had...

I’m not fake, and I try to say what I think to people. Living in a politically correct world can be tough, and at times my “ghetto” side seeps through to the public. And I don’t care. Working for the government has stolen my soul. More than anything, certain types of behavior...