Fact Check: Mail on Sunday

DadWagoner Matt posted this morning about the British historian Niall Ferguson, who’s reportedly playing Hide the Research Assistant with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, former Dutch MP and Glenn Beck’s hottest guest. In the interest of editorial integrity (yes, there is such a thing at DadWagon, despite this and this), I am calling bullshit on one part of the …

Mohammed Ali Is a Beautiful Man

I got a call from Dalia’s school this morning. “She’s complaining that her ear hurts,” said the caller. “And her teacher says she’s, ummm, howling.” Now, this is not a plug for The Wolfman, Benicio del Toro’s movie opening nationwide tomorrow (although, I bet if there were a #Wolfmanmoms blogger junket with a swag bag …

More Dangerous Things

Fellow DadWagoner Matt, whose parenting style I apparently criticized this weekend, had a good point about an unrelated topic: If I’m going to go around the Internet saying I love the book Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do), then I might as well actually read it. Fortunately, he had a galley copy. Reading more than …

Where’s the Outrage?

I’ll tell you where the outrage is. It’s at Daddytypes, who fumes a little that the Consumer Product Safety gurus’ latest recall is for cribs that have been killin’ since 2002. Would it be too libertarian of me to take some pleasure in yet another example of federal incompetence? After all, this is supposed to be …