I am no jock, god knows. My favorite piece of sports equipment is the comfy armchair in which I slump to watch the Yankees. My wife is better, in that she actually likes getting her body moving, but I don’t think she’d call herself an athlete. And jock culture has, for most of my life, …
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Critiquing the Discovery Channel Hostage-Taker’s Anti-Child Stance
No jokes, please, about the hostage situation at the Discovery Channel’s headquarters in Maryland. A nut with a gun is no laughing matter, and we certainly hope everyone gets out of that building unhurt. Even James Jay Lee, the (inevitably three-named) alleged hostage-taker. What you’ll be hearing a lot about, in the next couple of …
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JP Got the Chair
This past weekend I got rid of JP’s car seat and replaced it with a booster. He’s four and half, so this is a bit late, I suppose, but JP’s pretty slender (he just reached the minimum weight of 40 pounds), and I’m pretty lazy. He was more than a little excited about the new …
It’s ‘Kill Your Child’ Day on Dadwagon
There was a little girl, who had a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead. And when she was good, she was very, very good. But when she was bad, she was horrid. Given all that happened yesterday, these ancient and very, very famous lines could have been written about my daughter, Sasha, …