Imagine your grandfather parsing that title. Anyhoo, Matt Inman, hilarious scribbler of The Oatmeal, has ribbingly touted the virtues of cat-ownership vis-a-vis human reproduction. Inman’s antipathy to babies are known, so this is not suprising. Nor am I going to pretend that it is not funny. But in this day and age, we breeders deserve… Read More Actual Having a Baby vs. Having a Cat: A Riposte to The Oatmeal
Sometimes it’s hard to know when an idea is so crazy that someone advocating it is pulling your leg. I’ll admit it: when I read this paragraph… The fact of the matter is, if it weren’t natural, I wouldn’t still produce milk, and it wouldn’t feel good to breast feed my son. Because of the… Read More Mom Claims to be Breastfeeding Her 12-Year-Old Son on ThoughtCatalog, and the Internet Fails Another Satire Test.
Which is to say, the dearth of posting at this blog will be entirely blamed on the arrival of my youngest daughter, who blessed us earlier this month. When normal blogging will resume, I cannot say. Babies are attention machines, and it’s summer.
Not being a reporter, I have neither the skills nor the resources to discern fact from fiction in the Steubenville Rape Case. I trust that Stacy McCain has the right of the matter, and that the KoolKids from 4Chan (or whatever) are just desperately seeking lulz. So I’d like to talk not about the particulars,… Read More Stupid Teenagers are Stupid
The child-rearing pendulum continues to swing away from the helicoptering, obsessive, everyone-gets-a-trophy approach. We’re now starting to see psychologists say “You know what? Pay less attention to your kid’s feelings…” For the record, I wrote something similar back in 2005: Our modern child-rearing techniques seem focused on the emotional lives of children. I think this… Read More Or Maybe Your Kid is Just Stupid…
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