Yes, of course I know that gender stereotyping in young people is bad for their development. I’m a sensitive, progressive, up on the new trends in parenting kind of guy. Thus it pains me that when JP was pushing a year, I was adamantly opposed to keeping his hair long. My issue with it was …
Continue reading “The Tantrum: Don’t Muss With Texas, Part 4”
Okay, let’s be honest—I’m going bald and I’m none too happy about it. I mean, what kind of sick fucking cosmic joke would cover my entire body with hair but not my head? What exactly did I do to deserve that? Is it some sort of punishment for being Jewish? Perhaps that’s why I reacted …
Continue reading “Bad Dads We Love: Hair pulling and the hooscow”
Wasn’t Obama going to kill all the irony? Well, wasn’t he? We were going to enter an age in which partisanship would end, the elite would inherit the earth, tofu would taste fucking awesome, and no one would ever dare make oblique, self-referential sport of well-known and much-beloved kiddie songs. Yet, unlike that whole public …
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I have never played golf with my father. Never went fishing. Went camping once or twice, but never on a hike. Never went skiing, horseback riding, played touch football in the yard (didn’t have a yard), and while I am old enough to have played stickball, it was with the father of the kid downstairs, …
