It’s been strange following the ways in which the conservative governors of our middle American states have turned so virulently on a paragon of traditional American virtue: the teacher. Regardless of where you come down on the political activities in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Indiana–brutal response to fiscal reality or brutally cynical political wedge issue–it’s been …
Author Archives: Theodore
Mother Jones: Superpowers as a Disease
I have no idea what this Mother Jones interview is about, but it’s funny, and at least some of it has to do with children, albeit ones with undesirable super-powers, so therefore, I feel justified in running it at DadWagon: MJ: If a superhero has sex with a woman who doesn’t know he’s a superhero—say …
Better than LSD for the Little Guys
I got this from my good friend, and sometime DadWagon guest contributor, Gabe. It’s from a television show whose house band was known as the “Banana Splits.” Four singers, each named Leegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snorky, if Wikipedia is to be believed. But to me, this is just a small item of videographic evidence of why …
Never Let the Parents Practice
In a DadWagon first this post comes to us from one of our Facebook friends, Alexandria. It’s via the website, Parent Dish, and its about “practice babies.” Apparently, and shockingly, from 1919 to 1969, children from orphanages were taken to American colleges for use by young women in home economics classes. The writer Lisa Grunwald …