[Editor’s note: DadWagon has been paying attention to the petition circulating in San Francisco that aims to outlaw circumcision. Not only are we all “marked in the flesh” as part of our increasingly tenuous covenant with G-d, but two of us have had to decide, for our own sons, whether to continue the tradition. Here, …
Monthly Archives: November 2010
A Week on the Wagon: What Did YOU Think?
Normally, we here at Dadwagon HQ don’t give a shit what you think. Just keep reading and clicking, reading and clicking, and we’ll all stay happy while the nickels roll in. But sometime this week we realized there were no nickels rolling in. WTF?!? Dadwagon scientists devised elaborate, potentially universe-ending experiments to find out why; …
Why does children’s music make me want to destroy the earth?
“Daddy, can I put on some music?” Before I can answer, Charlotte, my 6-year-old, has already pushed play on the living room stereo and my long-suffering speakers start emitting a shrill and all-too-familiar series of staccato parps that cause my brow to furrow, my eyes to squint and my temples to throb. Once again, a …
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Redemption Wrong
Because we’re creeping up on 1) the one-year anniversary of Tiger Woods’s libidinal meltdown and 2) the weekend after Michael Vick absolutely chain-choked the Redskins on national TV, I’ve been thinking a bit about the ongoing rehabilitation of both of these men. They’re taking two very different paths, and one of them is succeeding, the …