My feelings about the circus are already on record here—to sum up, I find it not the “Greatest Show on Earth” but possibly the dullest—and if you wanted to make the whole business even less appealing, you couldn’t do much better than this. A UK paper has reported that this gent, Dominic Deville, can be …
Monthly Archives: April 2010
The Pre-teen Interplanetary Lobbyists
You all probably saw those news stories a year or so back when a governing body of scientists demoted Pluto from official planetary status. It’s a big rock, they said, but not quite planet-size. Well, this was not an uncontroversial decision. The American Museum of Natural History’s Neil deGrasse Tyson’s recent book The Pluto Files …
Think French Kids Dress Well? Then You Haven’t Seen the Japanese.
This just doesn’t feel fair, but I’ll post it anyway. Hot on the heels of Jean sending me that behind-the-scenes video from French kids’ fashion mag Milk, she left a copy of Maria magazine lying around at home. It’s from Japan, and well, just have a look at what it contains: Now, look. Those kids …
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A babysitter in hand is worth two daycares in the bush (or not)
I wanted to react briefly to Christopher’s post yesterday on his never having used a babysitter. Not to be too harsh, but Chris—so what? Let’s consider the distinction your drew between your child’s daycare and a sitter. First, I’m not convinced that daycare is “hardly the same thing” as a babysitter. In fact, while they …
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