There is no doubt that the publicist at Mom•Logic sent me the following excerpt from "The Childess Bitch on Holiday Travel" with the hope that it would get me fired up and irritated. And there is not question that, while reading the text on my Blackberry before heading into my daughter's daycare, my hackles (and my blood pressure) rose to new heights.

But let's face it - assuming the person who wrote this post really believes what she (or he) is saying, I can't imagine that anything I can say will change his (or her) mind. And, there is also no question that this was written to be extreme, and to get blood boiling. What I don't believe it is designed to do is get anything useful accomplished. Instead, it is just another attempt by the media to get two groups of people (in this case, parents vs non-parents) to butt heads, create a buzz and drive traffic to the new Mom•Logic web site.

So, go ahead and enter the fray if you wish (and while you are there, can you explain to me the non-parents on a site called "Mom Logic??". I'm going to take the high road and order another beer. At Chili's.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Travel safely and keep smiling.

"The Childess Bitch on Holiday Travel"

Listen, I get it, it’s hard being a mom..blah blah blah. Working down the hall from the Mom•Logic offices, I hear it all the time. Fine. I get it. I definitely get that traveling has got to be the worst of all mommy-duties. But face it—you chose to have children, and now you are choosing to transport them. I am just an innocent, single, non-disturbing airline passenger who, like you, had to pay a ridiculous price for an airline ticket. And let me be clear, I am not choosing to go on an exotic vacation with my three hot Italian boyfriends during this holiday time (a false sense of reality mommies often construct about life as a single person). But instead, I am being forced to join my quasi-loved ones in a small town on the opposite side of the country.

All I’m asking for is a little courtesy. None of us want to be trapped in an airport, stuck on a train, or tortured in traffic on the road. To make it a little easier on all of us, I have devised a quick list of Single Person-Friendly Traveling Rules for moms to keep in mind while traveling this weekend.

1. If you end up sitting next to me on the plane, you owe me a drink and/or an Ambien. Both are preferred.

2. Just because the terminal waiting area is carpeted, does not mean this is your child’s play room.

3. While you are on your cell phone and cannot hear your child, I can.

4. It’s great that you find your child hilarious but…no one else does.

5. Knowing you have to go through airport security with a gang of children, plan ahead. Don’t look surprised to find out you have to remove all five pairs of shoes on all 10 of your children’s feet. I manage to take my jewelry and belt off before getting to the front of the line. All I ask is, work it out.

6. If your son is over the age of 2, I don’t want to see him leaving a women’s restroom stall—one in which I surely will have to use.

7. Starbucks is a special place. The airport Starbucks, in particular, is no place for a child. Move it to McDonalds.

8. Just because you have a child in a middle seat does not grant you the right to take over my aisle seat.

9. Diapers should not be changed in places where I can watch it happen.

10. Last, but not least, please remember the Chilis To Go is a bar before anything else—please be respectful.