So, no, no defensiveness on my part with regards to Nathan’s return to DadWagon after his prolonged, inexcusable absence. I asked for his return, and now I got it. What do I have to complain about? Only problem is, when he comes back, it is with Tolstoy. Tolstoy. Granted, we are talking about books on …
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Just like you, we here at DadWagon (who have toiled alongside Matt Gross, aka the Frugal Traveler, these long months) have also been happily following Matt’s career. We four DadWagon writers are paid only in pixie dust and sexual favors [ed. note: speak for yourself], so we are glad that Matt has a robust for-money …
This was a long trip I just got back from, and I needed a thick book to keep me company–in this case, because I had plenty of driving to do, a lengthy audiobook. And few are longer than the 32-hour English translation of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. I’ve had a fitful relationship with Russian literature. …
Late last week, I offered a few possibilities, none definitive, for the family dynamic among the Antonin Scalia clan and its nine children. Is his wife saintly, beleaguered, adoring, contemptuous? And, amazingly enough, we all got an answer the next day, right here: “My wife calls me Mr. Clueless.” Whether this precedent should be interpreted …
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