Some studies just shouldn’t be done. We know in the abstract that humans are basically constantly swimming in fecal bacteria. Can’t we leave it in the abstract? No, apparently. “Science” had to go looking for more details. First came reports that iPhone screens are bacteria farms (perhaps because the guys at College Humor keep playing …
Monthly Archives: March 2011
On Not Cooking With Kids, and Other Minor Burdens of Fatherhood
This past weekend, the New York Times Magazine published the final installment of “Cooking with Dexter,” the father-and-son-in-the-kitchen column written by Pete Wells, who also edits the paper’s Dining section. For about two years, Wells had revealed the trials and tribulations of living with a precocious foodie—who once treasured baby vegetables “like very quiet pets”—and …
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Better than LSD for the Little Guys
I got this from my good friend, and sometime DadWagon guest contributor, Gabe. It’s from a television show whose house band was known as the “Banana Splits.” Four singers, each named Leegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snorky, if Wikipedia is to be believed. But to me, this is just a small item of videographic evidence of why …
Tilting at Kindergarten
It’s 5 am and I’m up early to try to do some work before the kids get up because after we all leave the house, I will have to invest another morning in the quixotic search for a kindergarten (if I’m Quixote, who is my Sancho Panza? My iPhone? I am alone). My itinerary this …