The Poop parentblog at the SF Chronicle raised my hopes with this headline: Why being a parent in the Bay Area totally rules. Turns out it’s not a real list (just four items, the first is: there are lots of balloons and puppies in the Bay Area). But I’ll take the bait, particularly since I …
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Church or dad: What’s best for the kids?
If you ever want an unedited look at the dank sewer of human relationships, check out leagle.com, which has an endless stream of court decisions between litigating parties. The conflicts range from petty to murderous. It’s delicious. That’s where I found this gem of justice, in which an Indiana court actually did the right thing …
Should dads be in delivery rooms?
There’s a heated discussion over at WaPo’s On Parenting blog. The topic: should dads be invited into the delivery room? One Gallic OB/GYN, Michel Odent, told the BBC he thinks not: “Having been involved for more than 50 years in childbirths in homes and hospitals in France, England and Africa, the best environment I know …
Spill O’Reilly
Sesame Street, like the rest of America, is somehow compelled to appease the cable-news outrage machine. No, O’Reilly is not an “esteemed anchor” (although, in the tradition of Walter Cranky and Dan Rather-Not, this parody is, I suppose, both flattery and insult):