Just in time for what looks to be a gorgeous weekend here on the East Coast, the Daddy Types Friday Freakout: a week's worth of wtf headlines from the worlds of health, politics, education and parenting, all rolled up into one post, just in time to ruin your weekend:
- BPA makes your kid fat. Especially the BPA in all the packaged, processed food you're giving him. Bostonherald via dt freakout correspondent sara]
- Genetically modified corn gives you cancer. Especially the Monsanto Roundup corn. And the Roundup. [sustainablefoodtrust]
- Well, it does if you're twenty tumor-prone rats, anyway. [motherjones.com]
- Rice an everthinisinnit has a bunch of arsenic. [wired]
- Two million Summer Infant bather chairs have been recalled because falling apart and dropping babies on their heads skull fractures. [cpsc]
- 4,700 Bluestem Range Rider ride-on jeeps have been recalled because battery melting plastic catching fire. [cpsc]
- "There was a line that said, 'Elimination Communication - not just for African bush women!'" [thehairpin, more of this awesomeness to come, obviously]
- Oh, alright, here's another one: "But with all of these issues, it's always going to be painted as 'mommy wars' so long as it's women debating things."
