Obama Sets a Bad Example for Fathers

Last night, around five o’clock, I left the house. I had some reading to do, and I knew I’d be distracted by the activity at home, so I went out to a bar for a couple of hours and made some progress in “A Time of Gifts.” Still, it felt weird: Meanwhile, Jean was feeding …

Wonder Vag vs. the Sperminator

From our fiddling, fire-lighting friends up north, comes this sex ed website created for teens by the Ontario government. The best part is a Flash video game where you can play one of four superheroes: • Wonder Vag the virgin, who can tell if you’re lying (is that a power I lost when I turned …

A Week on the Wagon: Exasperation Edition

Maybe we at Dadwagon went a little stir-crazy owing to this week’s snowstorm, because exasperation was in the air. Consider Nathan: taking a gimlet-eyed view of V-day, griping about federal bureaucracy, proposing that a few minor injuries to his kid wouldn’t be so bad. Or Matt, who mused on teen suicide, confronted an epic case …

I’ll Take Myself for $800, Alex

Last night, in the 90 minutes or so between when the nanny leaves and Jean comes home, I was playing with Sasha. That is, I was lying near-catatonic on the couch watching TV while Sasha ran around destroying things (she loves to tear apart New York Magazine, more than any other publication, for some reason). …