Look, I’m not saying that the Chinese students who got insanely good scores on the recent international standardized tests were cheating. Oh no. Certainly not. Don’t you see those quotation marks up there around the word “cheat”? I’m definitely the last person to suggest that the many news reports and anecdotes I’ve heard about Chinese …
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Monday afternoon I got a call from Miss Maggie, one of Sasha’s teachers at Preschool of America. Sasha had a fever, 102 degrees, and I needed to come take her home. My reaction was one of instant worry: Was my precious 2-year-old okay? Was 102 a potentially dangerous temperature for one of her age and …
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The first thing you need to know is that my wife, my daughter and myself are assholes. Not the mean type, but the annoying type. The kind of horrible, disgusting yuppie parents you see in this wonderfully entertaining video: The second thing you need to know is that that video, written in probably 30 minutes, …
We didn’t really get a chance last week to address the Facebook campaign in which users are asked to change their avatars to cartoon characters, a move that will somehow supposedly fight child abuse. Luckily, we have a small subsidiary Website known as Gawker that takes care of the little bits and pieces we just …
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