Thanks, Siggy. Mothers of Invention for Mother's Day.

I get to go to dinner at a restaurant that doesn't give out crayons with the menu. Yay me!

"I like nipples," Zappa told the committee, deadpan. "I think they look good. If you are going to look at a woman's breast, if you take the nipple off, which is the characterizing, determining factor, what you've got is a blob of fat there. And I think that when you're a baby, one of the first things you get interested in is that nozzle right there, and you get to have it right in front of your face. You grow up with it, so to speak. And then you grow up in the state of Maryland and they won't let you see that little brown thing any more."

Sure, it's cool when Frank Zappa says that.  Now close your eyes and picture Dick Cheney saying it...

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Ah, yes, the day founded by a monomaniacal spinster who died in an insane asylum.

I knew absolutely none of this before reading this article.

Interestingly, during her Mother's Day crusade, Miss Jarvis rarely mentioned her late mother's accomplishments as a Civil War diplomat and public health advocate. "Anna idolized motherhood in a way that only a woman without children could," Ms. Antolini said. "It was a very sentimental and childlike view. It was motherhood as the ultimate sacrifice."