My husband removed the floor mat from his 2005 Toyota Prius today, because he'd rather not die. Correction: I informed my husband to immediately remove the floor mat from him 2005 Toyota Prius so it wouldn't KILL HIM. Toyota is recalling millions of vehicles, and despite being an owner of one of said recalled vehicles, I found out via the news. Yes I tend to panic a bit, but when you hear stories about accelerators getting stuck and families dying, I think I am allowed to panic.

Tonight at 9pm Eastern, 6pm Pacific, President Barack Obama will delivered the State of the Union address to the nation. BlogHer's Jill Miller Zimon, American Princess EM Zanotti, and I are

Editor's note: John and Elizabeth Edwards confirmed their legal separation today, with John calling it "extraordinarily sad." Well, duh. I'm not terribly shocked -- are you? Tell me in the comments.

At 11:30am Eastern, 8:30am Pacific, White House Director of the Domestic Policy Council Melody Barnes will be answering BlogHer's questions on education. You can watch live below. Questions submitted by members of the BlogHer community can be found here.

I'm the mom that pulled her kid out of a traditional public school and put him into a project-based, public, charter school. My now six-year-old's former school was one of the "good" ones. Blue Ribbon. Accreditation. Excellent neighborhood. All that jazz. But their "teach to the test" approach was sucking the life out of my then kindergartner. He was buried in worksheets and stuck in his chair, told not to fidget and subject to the ramifications of the creativity-squashing results of No Child Left Behind. My bright, bright boy ... was getting left behind.