So, the latest “Ha-ha! Stupid parents!” meme that’s floating around the Internet is this delightful list (by Amy Goldwasser) of children’s names in the most recent Crewcuts catalog. There’s a Quincy and an Ava in there, and Walker and Scout, and Isabela and Finn, and Roman and Bella and Stella and Helena and Georges. Plenty …
Monthly Archives: May 2011
I Hate Dora the Explorer: Backpack Edition
Backpack, backpack. Backpack, backpack. Backpack, backpack. Backpack, backpack. Backpack, backpack. Backpack, backpack. Backpack, backpack. Backpack, backpack. Backpack, backpack. Backpack, backpack. Backpack, backpack. Backpack, backpack. Backpack, backpack. Backpack, backpack. Backpack, backpack. Backpack, backpack. Backpack, backpack. Backpack, backpack. Backpack, backpack. Backpack, backpack. Backpack, backpack. Backpack, backpack. Backpack, backpack. Backpack, backpack. Backpack, backpack. Backpack, backpack. Backpack, backpack. Backpack, backpack. …
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Bad Dads We Love: on not discussing OBL
I was listening to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s remarks from the 9/11 site this morning on the radio, where he announced the official opening of the National September 11th Memorial. The baby was spraying the room with her sweet potatoes and JP was busily constructing something arcane from Star Wars Legos. This passage caught my attention, …
Berlin Dispatch: Booyah, Bin Laden
I did make it to Berlin (thanks to Marlena, Carly and others for the fine travel tips) and woke up early this morning to get some work done before the kids come downstairs demanding quark and schinken. I got up, it turns out, just as news was breaking across the ocean that Osama bin Laden …