I don’t always plug my outside work here, because this blog is about parenting, dammit, not about the many ills I seem to trip across in my day job. But last year when I went down to Texas to report on the questionable conviction and execution of a drifter and bank robber named Claude Jones, …
Author Archives: Nathan
On the Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure
Almost as soon as the controversy began, it ended… with Amazon’s apparent capitulation. The controversy, of course, is about the bluntly named Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover’s Code of Conduct by Philip R. Greaves II, which as fellow dad-blogger Ron Mattocks pointed out when he tipped us to it, had risen to #97 …
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Post-Partum Comprehension
A few days ago, Slate reported that post-partum depression in dads is more common than you might think: 10 percent of new dads showed signs of moderate to severe depression, nearly as much as the 14 percent of new moms who did. Says Slate: Still, PPD for dads remains understudied, under-recognized, and controversial. Even among …
Crapopolis
There was a magical moment of communication between my wife and me a few weeks ago, the kind of deep unspoken negotiation that would make an empath weep. With nothing more than three looks back and forth–mine increasingly wavering, hers increasingly sharp–it was decided that I should be the one to clean the dogshit off …