CJ@2: My son C.J. turned two years old yesterday. As I wrote in his birthday card, no child has ever been more loved or more lovable. Sounds hokey, and I'm reminded of a Bill Hicks bit that mocked parents who thought their kids were somehow special. But the thing is, kids are special, every last one of them. Go ahead, have a kid and look in his or her eyes, and then try and say otherwise.

And when we realize we were all children once, well, then, there must be some residual specialness in all of us, right? Somewhere?