Since today appears to be Filter Day here, I'm linking a couple of mommyblogs for two friends of mine. One is studying mother's blogs for her dissertation, and one is a mommy who blogs (but not a mommyblogger so far.) Somehow neither of them read Dooce, who's gone from being the reigning drunken hilarious LA snarkfest to the reigning Poobah of All Mommybloggers. And I recently found Bad Mother via mamamusings and immediately attached it firmly to my blogroll.

I don't know why I love mommyblogs so much when I have to date manifested no maternal urges whatsoever myself. Perhaps it's because they offer a glance into a world so completely unlike my own or any that I've ever experienced as an only child. I recently held the non-mommyblogger's lovely newborn for nigh half an hour and felt no twinges whatsoever. I was fascinated by her amazingly perfect teeny tiny swirly ears, though. Plus, it's already obvious that she's totally smart. When she started to whimper after being passed to me, I told her, "It's okay, honey. I'm a rhetorician," and she settled right down.