Metta (Noun) From the Sanskrit, Metta is a sincere wish for the welfare and genuine happiness of all beings, without exception.

I envy my colleague Stacey's freedom to mock babies.* Unfortunately, for those who have children, or will have children someday soon, we have been trained to hold our tongue. It's not necessarily the belief that all babies are beautiful, it's fucking fear. Fear that should we make fun of someone else's baby, our own child will be plagued with a pug nose, webbed feet, or a thick tongue. A parent's maliciousness toward babies will almost certainly be reflected in their own newborn. It's scientific fact.

That's why I have nothing but metta, or maitri, for this baby! She's so cuuuute! All squishy and wrinkly and adorable! The baby looks just like her Dad, though it is a little creepy that Jamie Lynn procreated with Don Zimmer. But good for Zimmer for hitting that! 77 years young and still chasing young skirt. I didn't even realize he was still alive!

*I'm too concerned with the fact that the 17-year-old Jamie Lynn appears to have frosted her hair to comment on that hairless monkey she's holding in her arms. -- Stacey