I’ve got no beef with getting more information about the process of labor and delivery. Dads need to be there and they need to be helpful. My problem with the Birthing Class industry, though, is that it has been hijacked in many cases by a rather extreme cabal of natural-birth boosters. And I’ve got a …
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There is nothing I like more than being asked how I think other people should behave, especially when no one will ever expect me to behave that way. So, in addition to having laboring mothers take drugs (or not, it doesn’t really matter), I want: Editors to just take my word for it Everyone in …
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It must be said: I really like this new site Unhappy Hipsters. They take pictures from architectural mags like Dwell and re-caption them, thus exposing the emotional rot at the core of Dwell’s moneyed modernism. Instead of being jealous of these people’s wealth and creative-class cachet, I can now pity them and their children. It …
Rotten day at the office yesterday. I learned from one of my colleagues (and the New York Times) that my boss, Roger Hodge, was fired by Harper’s Magazine. Roger gave me my first and only real job in journalism. Gave me my only raise and promotion as a working adult. Assigned and ran two of …
