The Tantrum: Is it Wrong to Raise a Geek Part 3

A very strange thing started happening once we sent Dalia to preschool for the first time last fall: she made friends. With the cool kids. This is somewhat unprecedented. My family hasn’t had a serious brush with coolness since some long-ago relative was (allegedly) something of a mob lawyer in 1930’s Chicago. And even then, …

Q&A: Bambu, the Filipino Mos Def

The last time I interviewed a rapper, it was 50 Cent in a piece for a much larger media outlet than our humble Wagon of Dads. L.A.-based Bambu, formerly of Native Guns, may not be as big a name, but he is hands-down the best socially conscious Filipino-American rapper there is, because he freestyles like this and this …

Wonder Vag vs. the Sperminator

From our fiddling, fire-lighting friends up north, comes this sex ed website created for teens by the Ontario government. The best part is a Flash video game where you can play one of four superheroes: • Wonder Vag the virgin, who can tell if you’re lying (is that a power I lost when I turned …