Harry Hamlin, we hardly knew ye.  Apparently your pouty lips were not enough to sway the readership into voting for you, and you had a very paltry seven percent of the vote.

Ouch.

Well, if Dennis Quaid wins this next round, off to the Hall of Fame he shall go.  But, he might have a tough time against this competitor. He’s known for being “pretty” and he is very pretty indeed. He got his start in the early 80′s playing mostly arrogant jerks. Which was kind of believable because of all the prettiness.

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Ah yes, my son has exactly the same scooter. He’s gotten some mighty fine scrapes from it, too.

Apparently Gwen is smarter than me, because Kingston is wearing pants, and it’s much harder to make your knee look like raw hamburger when you’re wearing pants.

I’m also wondering if I approve of what looks like dyed hair on a child so young.

Maybe I’m just not enough of a rocker at heart.

It’s Friiiii-daaaaay! And you know what that means, of course. What would your last day of the work week be without some hot dads for you to judge?

Last week Richard Gere went up against the suprisingly still hanging-tough Dennis Quaid. Seriously, if you had told me that Dennis Quaid would win so many CDF’s, I wouldn’t have believed you. Sadly Mr. Gere lost, although not by a huge margin, so he can still hold his head somewhat high.

Today’s challenger is someone who became more famous as his career progressed, but he got his start in a movie called Clash of the Titans in 1981. This curly-haired, lush-lipped man is now married to an equally lush-lipped Lisa Rinna.

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I don’t know if you’ve ever watched Important Things with Demitri Martin on Comedy Central, but it is actually a very funny show. When I first saw the promos for it, I was a little put off by the hipster vibe that Demitri gives off, what with his primary-colored wardrobe choices and shaggy hair.

But I got past that one night, and it is definitely good for some laughs. Each show has a central theme, and this one is “Coolness.”

Check out some dads who refuse to give up on being cool just because they happen to be carrying their babies around.

Apparently, y’all are happy to have Catherine Zeta Jones keep her husband all to herself. Michael Douglas went down in some serious flames, with only fourteen percent of the vote. Maybe Gordon Gecko is just too evil of a dude for you guys to vote for him.

Today’s challenger is a formidable one. He had some very successful movies in the 80′s and early 90′s including American Gigolo, An Officer and a Gentleman, and one little indie flick called Pretty Woman

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In a surprise victory, Dennis Quaid managed to quash the dreams of repeat champion Harrison Ford, beating him by a very slim margin.  But hey, a win is a win, right?

So this week, we are sort of bridging the gap from the 1970′s into the 1980′s, and our challenger got his start in a little 70′s television show called The Streets of San Francisco, and then went on to become our favorite film victim of a crazy woman who was fond of ice picks, amongst other things.

Forgive me, since my sentences seem to have “comma-itis” today. Let’s hope it’s a temporary condition.

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Demetrius Jones is a determined boy who knows what he likes. He likes trucks. He likes HIS truck best of all, and now so do his parents, since it undoubtedly saved his life. His parents are going to be even MORE fond of the locks they’re going to put on on the box they store the batteries in so this doesn’t happen again:

From KayakYak:

Three-year-old Demetrius Jones woke up about 7:00 am Sunday the 13th, snuck out of his grandparents’ trailer, and found his battery-powered toy truck. By the time his family woke up, he was out of sight.
Searchers looked everywhere along the shore and downriver, where they found Demetrius about two hours later. He was twelve kilometres downriver, floating in deep, cold water. His plastic truck had rolled over, but he was still hanging on to it…

What this says to me as a parent is that we can’t just trust in child-resistant latches for trailer doors or tent zippers when camping near water. It takes thinking actively about safety. Take the batteries out of the kid car at night. And hide the keys for the real truck.

Indeed, not every plastic truck and toddler combination is amphibious.

Last week’s poll asked which celebrity mom you’d rather hang out with (based on the small amount of knowledge you have about their real personalities) and the big winner was Jennifer Garner with forty percent of the vote. It was a crowded field, and forty percent is pretty impressive. The next highest vote-getter was Reese Witherspoon with nineteen percent.

Poor Katie Holmes and Sarah Jessica Parker! They got no votes at all, which makes me feel sorry for them. Which is ridiculous because they both are fabulously wealthy, have husbands that seem to love them, and beautiful children. If anything, they should be feeling sorry for me. And they probably do.

Today we’re venturing into more serious territory. There have been alarm bells sounded by some researchers regarding what they call “the boy problem.” They claim that because so much focus has been on girls, boys have been neglected in the past twenty years or so, and the cracks in that strategy are beginning to show. Examples of this being high drop-out rates in school, lower school performance, as well as higher arrest and suicide rates.