I always had the impression that British reality TV was ever so slightly less crummy than American reality TV. (This despite the fact that they gave a series to Jordan, London’s deadliest press-seeking missile. If you don’t know her, picture your typical Penthouse bimbo, and add an extra ten pounds of silicone, distributed in the …
Monthly Archives: February 2010
The Tantrum: Is Sleep Training a Necessary Evil, or Just Evil? Part 3
Disclaimer: I occasionally shout at my kids. Sometimes I make them skip breakfast. I wish my wife had been drunker while breastfeeding. So maybe I’m simply the kind of parent who puts his own comfort over that of his kids. But the end result is that I disagree with my totally esteemed colleague Christopher about sleep …
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Bad Dads We Love: Substitute Father Figures
When I was 10 years old, I started taking karate classes, held in the evening at the local junior high. I loved it. I was young, flexible, and energetic, but more important, I loved my sensei, Grand Master Mumeet Shareef. A black Muslim in his mid-fifties, he could bench-press a couple of hundred pounds, treated …
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Your Cheatin’ Heart (Among Other Parts)
A new turn in the story of this Wisconsin woman who took revenge on her unfaithful man by gluing his penis to his stomach. She’s called it a “stupid spur-of-the-moment” move, and will not be doing jail time. The fun details revealed in this story, however, include: a) She called in the guy’s three girlfriends …