This post has ten links and I didn't ask for permission to use any of them. I'm a maverick that way.

This morning while delousing my daughter's head again. (6 new eggs!) I got this email.

Remember this woman had previously emailed me telling me it was fine since this is my personal website. They just can't get their stories straight. Silly women.

Melissa,

It has recently come to the attention of International MOMS Club® that
you have links from your website to both International MOMS Club's®
website and the Berkley, MI chapter's website. You do not have permission from either of this [sic] organizations to use their website
addresses on your personal website. By linking them, it gives the
appearance that International MOMS Club® and the chapter support your website, which is not the case. While the opinions are yours and can
freely be published, it is requested that you remove any links to these two sites.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Sincerely,
Cxxxx Sxxxxxx
Asst. Regional Coordinator
Michigan/Wisconsin

Really? Did any of you savvy internet users think that by linking to the MOMS Club® International website they were supporting my opinions or that this was an 'official' website of the MOMS Club® organization?

Because it isn't and I thought I made that clear but it appears the MOMS Club® organization isn't familiar with how this InterWeb works.

I hate George Bush but by linking to the white house website I don't give off the appearance that I'm somehow tied to the government. This isn't how things work.

Oh MOMS Club®, this is making you absolutely crazy and I'm sorry it is. I just can't stand being told what I can or can't publish on this website from people I have no desire to please.

Also, I linked to this lame-o website when talking about the Gossip Geyser and The FYI Era. I hope you weren't under the impression they supported this website. I don't know how you would have got that impression, since I now absolutely can't stand the entire organization, but if you did. Let's clear this up now.

Disclaimer: The links I provide on this website do not imply any official ties to the organizations I link. The opinions on this website are mine and mine alone. Any links I use are meant to share more information with you, the reader.

Now, cut it out you annoying MOMS Club® and you annoying group of busy bodies.

Comments

[trudie]

oh, i can't tell you enough how happy i am to have found your website!

but aren't you providing these links so people can go do their own research and make their own decisions. you are merely providing a convenience, correct? i'm sure the aclu or some similar association would help you out, here if they had the balls to do anything about their ridiculous complaint--maybe if you bump into geofrey feiger again you could ask him about it. :) come on, linking to something is a problem? have they even discussed this with anybody who knows anything about the internet AT ALL? sounds like they sort of like the people we have down here who say, 'oh, that there internet thing is bad, satan himself--people get addicted to it and it sucks the life and money and holiness right out of them and then it turns their brains to mush and they can't tell who supports or endorses what with all those confusing links and all' yeah people, we're just that stupid.

i bet all of their letters to you start with, 'it has recently come to our attention'

i hope you finally kick the lice--they are annoyingly persistent, i'm learning. sort of like the moms club--can't beat the timing, huh?

[abby]

Oh, I love it when people think the internet has RULES.
You should check out http://www.dontlink.com/

[Mary]

Fuck. I just now wrote a post and linked to you and I totally failed to ask permission. Hope I don’t get in trouble.

Melissa, these bitches need to be put in their places. Can you somehow transfer the lice to THEM? There would be no sweeter revenge.

[melissaS]

What a wonderful idea Mary, maybe I'll email the group and see if we can get together to talk things over. Here...at my house, in Madison's bed. There, lay down, get comfortable.

[Eyes for Lies]

Ha! Good on you. Typical clickish behavior of woman who have nothing better to do than try to control others.

Who are they, the Internet Police LOL?

[tracy]

This is a good reason not to join the International Moms Club. Because they are obviously very stupid.

[Dawnlight]

Perhaps they don't want to be related to your site because you use the words "Fuck" & "Fucking" quite often here. It seems they forgot this is how they became Moms to begin with.

I am a Mom and your blog rocks.

They should be thanking their lucky stars that you are generating some sort of traffic on their silly little site.

[Carrie]

I'm just sitting here shaking my head. What is with people? I'm glad you take it with a great sense of humor and just rub their noses in it even more. Idiots!

[-erica]

It seems to me that they can't threaten you with anything but loss of membership and didn't you already resign? I have been a member of my local chapter of the MOMS Club for 5 years, and been on the board at times. I will not defend them in any way except to say that I personally (AND my kids) have benefitted from my membership in the MOMS Club. I think that the International MOMS Club provides a structure for local moms to get together, and your local experience is heavily dependent on the members of your local chapter. I thankfully have run into an awful lot of nice people. But there are bad apples in every bunch... and I've had a few bad experiences, too. I do believe that they have quite a few weenie-brain rules. I have one request: Ladies... please don't write off the MOMS Club just because of this incedent. See if your local chapter fits your needs. Walk away if it doesn't.

[melissaS]

Erica you are so totally right and recently I haven't made that totally clear. I had a problem with several bad apples but quite honestly that has as much to do with my intolerant attitudes than generally horrid people.

The International Organization is now being stupid, but I did in the past benefit from my membership and you should all know that.

I've met several people I still know and like very much.

I don't like the people creating this stupid mess. They're seperate issues....so while you're at the website you should look for a link to your local chapter and see if it's a good fit for you personally.

Who knows, maybe my ex chapters would be a good fit for you. Some people are better at dealing with people than me.

[Sarcastic Journalist]

Shit! I'm glad you cleared that up for me because I was GOING to join the moms club but then i found out that they support using vibrators as telephones and I was all "No way, bitches!"

And then I sent them a letter on how to really use vibrators. I'm glad I cleared that up.

[Christie Hoover]

If I'm not mistaken, that's your First Amendment right. So tell the Mom's Club to FUCK OFF!

I have to use my Business Law skills whenever I can!

[Deena]

Oh that was just clicky fun.

[leslie]

Longtime lurker-- coming out from under the rock to say:

Have you tried peanut butter?

Not for the Militant Moms Club issue, but for the lice. It saved me mucho stress when my kids came home with lice... for the THIRD time in as many weeks. Get the cheapest, oiliest brand you can. It is a bear to wash out, but is smothers the f*ckers and helps with the nit removal too...

Hang in there!

[Dana]

They should only be so lucky to have you be on their side in any way.

[MoMMY]

No comments about the Mom's club. Know nothing about them.

As for the lice... MY WORST NIGHTMARE as a parent. Is it time to just shave their heads? Thank God I have boys. That is what we will do if/when we get struck with the WORST. PARENTING. NIGHTMARE. EVER. known as lice.

[christy]

I love how on the site it says "knock on the door to enter" and then in parentheses it has (click) because, you know, you might sit there knocking on your computer monitor all day waiting for some tiny little gossiping beeatch to answer the tiny virtual door. Love it, love it, love it.

[maddie]

YOU are too frickin' hilarious!

[GrammarBitch]

Let's not even get into the atrocious grammar and style, m'k?

[shelley]

You know, I clicked on the link to the lame-o website and got a popup from Spybot saying they were trying to load Gator on my computer.

[Phillip]

Speaking of lice, there was a lice problem in my elementary school (Adler in Southfield) in the late 70's. The principal inspected each kid's head for lice. A bunch of parents got upset and she had to write a letter of apology to every parent. I'm surprised I still remember that!

[cooper]

You know, these INTERNATIONAL MOMS CLUB and NOT-INTERNATIONAL MOMS CLUB type people remind me of GEORGE BUSH. So, perhaps, somehow through your blog you could link these two together (although they are probably already linked on many different levels - they certainly seem to have quite a lot in common.) They could keep each other occupied and that would be quite a service to us all. Rock on.

[pinky]

Freaky. I went to Adler too, but just for first grade. It had it's own planetarium!

[heidi]

god lord that cracked me up! I cant believe the things that some people think they are allowed to control..silly moms group :)

[Carrie F.]

re: lice. After a completely nit-free childhood, I caught lice from my baby sister while visiting my dad's house at the age of 26. It was completely HORRIBLE. Even now, several years later, my scalp stills crawls thinking about it. My step-mom (bless her heart) spent three days fine combing my hair with a mixture of crisco and coarse sea salt. I guess it's supposed to be like the peanut butter, smothering them? Anyway, I've read that the chemical lice cures have been on the market so long that lice are immune. You might try the crisco or peanut butter angle before resorting to agent orange. Good luck.

[MG]

OMG you are totally going to be the next scandal of the Interwebosphere! First Dooce gets Dooced, and now you get...MOMS Clubbed.

[P. Melissa]

Can we put our heads together here and have a wee chat about head lice? Good. We've been battling the wee buggers for over a month now. After obsessively checking about 3 million websites, today I'm going with Harvard Medical Review and trying this: saturating the girl's scalp in olive oil for two hours. They say that after two hours in the oil, the lice finally give up and drown (after one hour the lice still think they're in a good Italian restaurant). The whole poison-shampoo thing both freaks me out and the lice are resistant to it, so vive la olive oil. Here's to hoping. It will probably take another month to wash the oil out! Wish me luck.
Sincerely,
Lurking Lice Mama,
P. Melissa
PS: Happy Nit Picking and LINK AWAY, Baby!

[A]

I'm, like, a little confused.

The MOMS Club supports you and is asking you to run for the presidency of MOMS Club? And you want to run the MOMS Club like George W. Bush, your hero, runs the United States of America?

Cool.

[viktor]

I know I'm several days late in posting, but I just had to say that this post was beautiful. I nearly wept tears of joy. Malicious joy, but joy nonetheless.