We each, in our own way, seek to love and honor our fathers, even if that sometimes means killing them after finding them “in the clinch” with our wives. So it shouldn’t be so shocking that Samantha Bell would call her father — the sadsack IRS killer-pilot Joe Stack — a “hero.” She told Good Morning …
Author Archives: Nathan
First Bad Hair Day Ever
It happened today: Dalia’s first bad hair day. Or at least, the first day where she was self-conscious about how her hair looks. It’s cold in New York, yet again, so I put a knit hat on her head, and when I took it off her head at school, her hair was its usual fly-away, …
The Privatest Public Schools
A new study from the Fordham Institute catalogs a school type I hadn’t heard about before: the Private Public School. These are basically public schools that service almost no poor students, and apparently 1.7 million U.S. students attend one of them. This includes a relatively high percentage of kids in the states around New York …
Taking it to the next level
Via Annie at PhD in Parenting, the studious Canadian momblogger, we came to know this article about how the next UK election is shaping up as the Mumsnet election. That is, the women of Mumsnet, the leading momblog in the UK, will be the next soccer moms or values voters or teabaggers or whatever the “it” …