Look, I know having children—literally producing children in your body—is not easy. It’s a challenge, an adventure, fraught with risks both physical and psychological, and, as Americans delay the age at which they procreate, often entangled in legal and medical bureaucracies. But can we give it a rest with the multi-thousand-word magazine treatments of complicated …
Category Archives: Media
Media Alert: Teachers Have Sex!
The New York Post reported today that Melissa Petro, an art and writing teacher in the public school system (who they refer to as a “Sexxx-ed teacher”), and who several years earlier had worked as an escort, was awarded tenure. I refuse, although it goes against my every instinct, to make any Van Halen references …
The Littlest Comedian
It will come as no surprise to many of you that I have a 6-year-old’s sense of humor. Pratfalls, fart jokes, goofy puns—all are pretty much guaranteed to get me giggling, if not blasting the room with my laughter. Which is why it’s pretty damn nice having someone around who laughs at the same things …
SXSW Strikes a Blow for Old Media
This came fresh from SXSW, posted over at Can’t Stop the Bleeding (thanks to Ana Marie Cox for making it known to our world). Hateful, yes, but kinda funny.