What is wrong with us?

Another day, another parenting story that should have come from the Onion, not the world of Actual News. From the article’s first paragraph: Sleep positioners marketed with the promise of helping babies sleep safely are too dangerous to use and should not be sold, U.S. officials warned on Wednesday. I did not buy any of …

Media Alert: Teachers Have Sex!

The New York Post reported today that Melissa Petro, an art and writing teacher in the public school system (who they refer to as a “Sexxx-ed teacher”), and who several years earlier had worked as an escort, was awarded tenure. I refuse, although it goes against my every instinct, to make any Van Halen references …

Brought to You by the Letter ‘B’

The saddest, most beautiful lede ever: The princess birthday cake for a 3-year-old girl was one of the few things left untouched after a brawl that police said involved 75 people at a hall in suburban Cincinnati, Ohio. Really, where do you go from there? Well, you explain what led to the fight at that …