In retrospect, yesterday evening wasn’t all that much worse than usual. When I came to pick Sasha up from daycare, she was reluctant, lying down in the middle of the classroom until the teacher dragged her to me. Then she didn’t want to be in her stroller, and she didn’t like the snack I gave …
Monthly Archives: May 2010
But You Can’t Recycle a Baby, Folks
A little item from The American Prospect that really gets at some of the unfortunate idiocy of the environmental movement: “The Population Debate Gets Personal,” to me, reflects a certain kind of prevailing eco-anxiety, a sort of feel-good feel-bad for yuppies, in which reduced procreation can be positioned as a “green” act akin to raising …
Bad Dads We Love: Life without parole edition
The Supreme Court just ruled 5-4 that minors could no longer receive life prison sentences without having actually killed someone. Surprising case on many levels, at least for me. First, I had no idea you could give a youngster a life sentence without their having killed someone, so this whole thing starts off as news …
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Out of My Way, Punk
Headed toward daycare, pushing the Boo in his stroller. Light changes, and I’m just pushing him over the lip of the curb when zoom: a skateboarder appears out of nowhere, fast, the wrong way up the one-way street. He pulls up as hard as possible, practically falling off his board in the process, and arcs …