My feelings about the circus are already on record here—to sum up, I find it not the “Greatest Show on Earth” but possibly the dullest—and if you wanted to make the whole business even less appealing, you couldn’t do much better than this. A UK paper has reported that this gent, Dominic Deville, can be …
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The Pre-teen Interplanetary Lobbyists
You all probably saw those news stories a year or so back when a governing body of scientists demoted Pluto from official planetary status. It’s a big rock, they said, but not quite planet-size. Well, this was not an uncontroversial decision. The American Museum of Natural History’s Neil deGrasse Tyson’s recent book The Pluto Files …
Who Are These “Sitters” of Which You Speak?
As long as we’re all piling on Matt for his extremely casual attitude about temporary childcare, I will (as usual) reveal that I’m the tightass in this debate. Not only have we never left our kid with some random potentially insane/inebriated/berserk stranger; we have never hired a baby-sitter at all. (Unless you count our daily …
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Everything I Said About Things Only Adults Should Do? Uh, Never Mind.
Spent Saturday night in Baltimore, at my twentieth college reunion, and it was a pleasant surprise. Nobody appears to have gone to hell or fallen apart, at least physically (those people probably stay home, come to think of it), and my wife and kid had a good time meeting people. Afternoon luncheon, campus tour, evening …
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