Over at Kotaku.com, Stephen Totilo has identified an awesome new trend in video games — fatherhood: Being a dad, however, is becoming nearly as popular in video games as health bars and shotguns and, to my playing sensibilities, nearly as successful. I believe we are now experiencing a period of video game history that high …
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I’ll tell you where the outrage is. It’s at Daddytypes, who fumes a little that the Consumer Product Safety gurus’ latest recall is for cribs that have been killin’ since 2002. Would it be too libertarian of me to take some pleasure in yet another example of federal incompetence? After all, this is supposed to be …
Last weekend, at the excellent birthday party of a certain 4-year-old, my 14-month-old daughter, Sasha, had a blast. She scribbled with purple Magic Markers, drizzled glue on things, and sucked with glee on a juice box. She was a dynamo. But a comment from one of the fathers there surprised me: Apparently, according to him, …
I took my daughter to the Exploratorium in San Francisco on our trip out there last week. It wasn’t just a way to fill a morning. It was kind of a pilgrimage, since I used to go there when I was living with my dad in California, in the glorious 1980s, when the Golden State was on …
