Lesson #4: Your baby is not a weapon.

When you were a kid, you probably bumped your head a few times. Perhaps even hard. Maybe you have a scar that your parents tell you about how you fell off the high chair and hit the corner of the table or the fireplace. Or perhaps you took a few extra spins on the merry-go-round and fell off.

I certainly had my fair share of them. I took a baseball to the head that knocked me out and left a pretty good shiner. I fell out of the top bunk when I was asleep and hit my head on my dresser loud enough to wake my parents up in the next room. But I certainly never got any of my bumps and bruises the way the baby in our latest news adventure did. Mostly because when I was a 4 week old, my mother didn't use me as a baseball bat when my dad stepped out of line. I'm not sure if it was because my dad never stepped out of line, or if we happened to have baseball bats always laying around the house, but regardless, to the best of my knowledge, it didn't happen.

The baby suffered a fractured skull, some bleeding in the brain and is in serious, but stable condition. The mothers bail has been set at $75,000, which I'm pretty sure is not enough being that the "aggravated" in her aggravated assault case is because she used a baby as a weapon. Her other 4 children were taken out of the home and put in protective custody.

Lesson #3: People who want censorship, should be censored.

Coming in high in the irony department comes this little story from Conroe, Texas.

It seems that a book has created quite the controversy, as the father of one of the children asked to read it didn't agree with its content. The irony department kicks in when you know what the book it.

See, author Ray Bradbury wrote a book in 1953 about McCarthyism, the Nazi Book Burnings, and the suppression of authors in the Soviet Union during the Stalin era, but evidently, the message behind Fahrenheit 451 didn't sink in to one resident of Conroe.

The fact that a book about how censorship is wrong, is trying to be censored, puts this story up for Irony of the Year Award.