When the New York Times’ “Motherlode” blog asks a question like “Why Does Anyone Have Children?,” it’s very tempting to snark the fuck out of it, especially when the questioner, a reader named Baily, is so earnest: I understand the evolutionary pull (and necessity) of procreation, I get that some-to-most women have ‘the urge,’ but …
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The Littlest Losers
From the New York Times comes word of Our Little Genius, an awesome new Fox prime-time game show, in which “gifted and talented” kids answer trivia questions for cash: The game show’s questions, on topics that the child chooses, like astronomy, the Civil War or Greek mythology, increase in difficulty over 10 levels, with each …
The Tantrum: Ratting Out Your Kid, part 2
(This is our second run of “The Tantrum,” in which each of our four regulars will address one subject over the course of a week. Previous Tantrum: TV or not TV?) When I was a kid, I did some bad things. I mean, not very bad, but not great. Once in a while, I shoplifted …
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Interview with the Man from ‘The Road,’ by Cormac McCarthy
With The Road, the cinematic adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel, now in movie theaters, a new audience is getting exposed to the nightmarish tale of survival in a post-apocalyptic landscape. At its core though, The Road is about the heartwarming relationship between a father, the Man, and his son, the Boy, as they fight …
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