1) 13 year old boy is rescued from a dramatic accident.

2) Man "fathers" 30 kids with 11 different moms. But can't pay for them all.

3) Study shows that people who buy organic are more likely to be jerks.

A GOP-leaning group wants to run ads on Rev. Wright now that the nation has forgotten about economic hardship, runaway spending and joblessness. Romney has "repudiated" the effort which is expected of him by the mainstream press because, such ads would be grossly unfair. After all, if there's one thing we've learned, it's that attacks on Obama's background are unfair.

It's unfair to examine his relationship with Tony Rezko and Obama's property deal with him.

It's unfair to examine his mentors, associates, or Reverends or anyone who may have influenced his world view as an adult (and double true for childhood mentors).

It's not fair to look at his past candidate pledges or legislative history to get a sense of his views.

The important thing for the American people is that they learn as much as possible about what Mitt Romney may or may not have done in high school. Did he say, "Atta girl" or cut hair? Did he ever hurt someone's feelings? Did he leggo the Eggo? Was he a Vampire as a child as well?

Until those questions are answered (and so, so many more) we should not expect any time spent on those other frivolous issues.

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Faced with the prospect of raising a son, Joel Stein decided it was time to brush up on his man skills. The experience is the subject of his book "Man Made: A Stupid Quest for Masculinity." (Image courtesy Grand Central Publishing)

Faced with the prospect of raising a son, a father-to-be described as having an "effete nature," decided it was time to brush up on his man skills.

"I wasn't looking to be the manliest man. I was just looking to be on par with the rest of America," said Joel Stein, TIME columnist and author of "Man Made: A Stupid Quest for Masculinity," in an appearance on 770 KTTH's David Boze Show.

Looking back through the ages, Stein said he's observed a marked decline in manliness.

"If you watch Don Draper [of Mad Men], he's so manly. When people ask him if he wants to do something, he just says 'no,' whereas when people ask me if I want to do something I don't want to do, I say, 'Oh I would love to, but I have plans with my wife I can't get out of,' said Stein.

He said the Mad Men study even shows a sharp decrease in manliness from one generation to the next. "If you watch the episodes with his [Don Draper's] dad, who is coming home from the mine with his face dirty and he comes home and just beats his wife and kids, he's far manlier."

Stein said as technology advances, he believes men will continue to lose their masculinity.

"I think if you go back further and further in history, masculinity is always dying out. It's mostly technology," said Stein. "We gain a lot because we get iPhones, but we lose a lot too. I think we should try and retain some of that."

To retain his own manliness, Stein embarked on his quest, that involved taking a 24-hour shift with LA firefighters, going to Army boot camp, rebuilding a house, and other manly activities, like hunting.

Of all the manly challenges he took on, fighting with a UFC fighter sounds the most painful.

"I got the UFC to train me and let me go one round with Randy Couture, which is the stupidest of the stupid things I did," said Stein.

But the punches were not for nothing.

"It did teach me that when you get punched in the face, it hurts, and two seconds later you're standing back up. It's awful, but it's not that bad," said Stein.

His lessons weren't all so tough.

"I had a Lamborghini for three days. That was just pure fun," said Stein.

He said he found a ton of his manly experiences valuable, but the best lesson came from Couture and his father, who told him:

"You can't control who your son is. That's a fool's errand, trying to shape him into who you want him to be," said Stein.

But he said he will try to teach him some manly things if he's open to it.

"I am going to expose him to things that he's not wholly objecting to."

By JAMIE GRISWOLD, MyNorthwest.com Editor

1) Woman with flesh eating virus may lose some limbs but may make it through

Time's attachment parenting cover model mom, appeared on the Today show today along with Dr. William Sears, who lost credibility with me when I heard him agree that kids should never be allowed to "cry it out." He says he's never heard of an "attachment baby" becoming a bully. Interesting science. I wonder if he's visited kids in their teens?

Watch the video. Note when mom speaks to anyone other than the boy, he looks uncomfortable and seems to whine.

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