? resident TIME humorist Joel Stein describes his wife?s latest plan: dining on placenta. Here?s my favorite part of the column:

Most mammals, Cassandra explained, eat their placentas, to which I countered that most dogs eat their poop. I stopped arguing there, figuring that like many of Cassandra’s hippie ideas ? the compost bin, rubbing lemon on her underarms instead of deodorant ? she’d give up on this in a few weeks.

If only that were true of all ?hippie ideas.?