When the world is falling apart, it's time for a little escapism. And so we bring you the trashiest, lowest-brow trifle we could come up with: a list of the very worst celebrity baby names.

1. Tu Morrow (Rob Morrow)

You just know that this name came up during a drunken pre-conception conversation. The tragedy is, they never thought of a better one. We just hope the kid likes that song from Annie, because people will be serenading her with it forever.

Check out this very thoughtful summary of the current vaccination debate. Here's her conclusion:

Not vaccinating your kids is sort of like not voting: it might not make much of a difference, but you're betting on most everyone else making a different choice, and the outcome is one everyone has to live with. So it's not surprising that some refer to non-vaccinating families as freeloaders (or, in Amanda Peet's more incendiary language, "parasites"). But unlike those who fail to vote, parents who opt out of vaccinating their children are doing so for the very best reasons: they love their children and want the best for them. The question is, how fair is it to "protect" your children from vaccines if it puts other kids at risk?

Read the whole article here, then voice your thoughts in comments.

In the new article "No Holding Back: Why I didn't 'redshirt' my kindergarten-age son," Holly Korbey writes about how when she moved to Texas she was pressured to hold her perfectly normal four-year-old back from starting school. Everyone's doing it, parents on the playground told her.

What is going on with buses in Canada?

A woman just attacked a Toronto bus driver with a hammer for not dropping her off soon enough, the AP reports.

Our theory: Greyhound jinxed the industry with that marketing campaign "There's a reason you've never heard of bus rage."

They pulled the ads after the recent Greyhound bus decapitation in Manitoba, but not soon enough to remove the bus rage curse . . .

According to The New York Post, nudism - including nude dining, yoga and stand-up comedy - is all the rage. One such club discussed in the article:

About 50 diners - whose motto is "no hot soup" - regularly turn up for Ordover's monthly meals held at venues including the Mercantile Grill on Pearl Street and Pete's Downtown in Brooklyn. They're served by regular restaurant staff - forced by city laws to keep their clothes on.

Here's the answer to our first question: the naked diners bring their own sheets and towels to sit on. Our second question, though, remains unanswered: Sure it's hot, but what's wrong with air conditioning?

Last week, we interviewed the World Champion Chessboxer, a 19-year-old Russian math student, for TIME magazine, and remembered why we love our job: we get to research things like chessboxing.

The matches work like this: competitors alternate between three-minute rounds of boxing and four-minute rounds of speed chess with one-minute breaks in between to get the gloves off and hunker down at the chess table. The winner is determined by knockout, checkmate, or referee decision.

Here's an excerpt from our conversation with the winner, Nikolaj Sazhin:

Our friend Brendan Kennedy at MTV just filed this report about the biggest online dance battle of all time, now raging on YouTube. The competitors: Miley Cyrus and her friend Mandy versus the ACDC dancers.

Here's the original April volley by Adam Sevani (Moose from Step Up 2: The Streets, which looks awesome) and Jon Chu (the movie's director).

Miley and Mandy generated this response. Then Chu smoked the girls with an answer (above) that featured Adam Sandler, Diana Ross and Lindsay Lohan. Miley appeared to be defeated. Then this happened . . .

Woo-hoo, it's Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work Day! This year's theme: Making Choices for a Better World.

There are no kids in our office today. We're thinking the holiday may have jumped the shark. Here are a few theories why:

1. They made the already too-long name Take Our Daughters to Work Day even longer when they added Sons in 2003. More importantly, this move diluted its original mission, which was to get more women in the workplace and to make sure young women knew that they could make their own money.

2. Back in the day, the holiday was very rah-rah, yes-you-can, little girl! But now when you tell the official site's Dream Calculator you want to run the country, it's all, "Are you sure?"

This AP story on the world's oldest person, 115-year-old Edna Parker, has a lot of sunny details about balloons and roses, and it's all very lovely, but what we wanted to know was how did she do it?

The article, anticipating this question, runs down the latest developments in longevity research. Basically, here's what you need to live past 100:

1. Amazing mutant genes that ward off aging.
2. Healthy habits.
3. The ability to handle stress well.

The various life expectancy calculators around the web more or less concur with that estimation, although they give more weight to one element or the other. We just took this quiz and were told we should live to 95. This one says 89. So we're convinced the first one is superior.

How long does it say you'll live? Does that sound about right to you? Would you even want to live to be more than 100 if it meant outliving your children like Edna has?

MSN today has an item on its homepage that appears to be vying for the Guinness World Record for Most Clichés in a Lifestyle Post. It's called the Wife's Bill of Rights, and here's a sample:

Amendment I
We have the right to dislike your buddies.
We know it's important for you to have your guy friends, but you should know by now that we're not turned on by your stories of the good old days at college, your sexual exploits, or which relief pitcher the Red Sox should trade. Disappear for a while and be boys-it's OK, go chug beer and high-five-but please don't expect us to be happy when your friends come over and put their feet on our coffee tables or leave their beer cans on the floor.

We just ran a piece on Babble about baby sign language, which (at least in our part of the country) has become incredibly popular of late. In "Hands Across America: Is baby sign language an essential or a rip-off?" Pamela Paul writes:

Baby signing - for babies who can hear perfectly well - has become something of an epidemic. Classes are taught everywhere - from community centers to music schools to Y's to prenatal yoga centers. Dozens of books (including a Complete Idiot's Guide to Baby Sign Language), videos, DVDs and workshops from companies like KinderSigns purport to teach the method to parents eager to foster early language skills in their infants.

Airport indignities - from requiring booties be taken off a sleeping baby at security to unexplained multi-hour delays - have started to make the Greyhound bus station seem downright pleasant by comparison.

Today, American Airlines canceled 200 flights, 10% of its schedule, to inspect certain aircrafts. It's not like security and safety aren't the top priority. And God knows it's better to make sure there are no problems rather than let a faulty craft go up in the sky.

Still, we can't help but think of all those poor people (hundreds, the report says) stranded at the airport with no recourse.

We just ran an article on Babble this week called "The Six Biggest Pregnancy Myths: In defense of sushi, cheese, hair dye - and common sense." It immediately, inevitably got a gazillion comments about fetal alcohol syndrome.

But the author of the story, L.J. Williamson, isn't saying pregnant women should go out and become raging alcoholics or eat cat litter. She's just saying the anxiety about what pregnant women eat and drink has gone too far. She writes:

As I was preparing to leave the hospital after the birth of my son, a nurse sat me down and solemnly told me that it was very important, while breastfeeding, to "avoid all spicy foods like Mexican or Indian." I imagined a sari-clad wife cradling a newborn and looking on sadly as her Mexican husband cleared their refrigerator of tikka masala, pork vindaloo, and chorizo sausage, restocking it with a twelve-month supply of Swanson's Hungry Man Meatloaf Dinners.

We just ran a piece on Babble excerpted from the book Microtrends about how the number of old new dads is on the rise. The authors, Mark Penn and Kinney Zalesne, report that:

In recent years, much fuss has been made about Older Moms, and how women's careers plus advances in fertility treatments are prompting childbearing up to, and even past, the age of 40.

But what's missing is attention to the Dads, who are also increasingly older, and who don't face the same biological hard-stop that kicks in for most women around age 40.

Check out this chart, which graphs rising paternal age: