New rule (though it shouldn't be necessary) and a rule I teach my fifth graders every year: No more commenting on a pregnant woman's physical appearance. If my wife comes…
This was going to be cute, but my daughter told me to put the phone away so I would be available to clap. Kind of annoying.
Tonight I am thankful for the enthusiastic readers who have been engaging in a new form of live tweeting whereby they send me tweets as they make their way through…
In 2011, I suggested on this blog that I might make an excellent professional best man and offered my services to anyone interested. Thus far I have received three inquiries…
Bestselling author Ellen Potter’s recent interview in The Baltimore Sun featured this gem: [Encouragement] is important in this field, right? Oh, yes. One professor in college told me flat-out I…
Tonight I am grateful for Portlandia. Elysha and I watched the season finale of the show tonight. It’s freakin’ hilarious. Happily, IFC has greenlighted a third season of the show,…
This week’s Slate DoubleX Gabfest discussed how Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown Law Student who was called a “slut” by Rush Limbaugh, might be “the new standard bearer for sex-positive feminism.”…
So many parents have such a hard time getting their children to sleep at night. Some can’t stand the thought of listening to their child crying in the crib during…
The history behind the poster and phrase “Keep Calm and Carry On” is a good one, but the most intriguing thing about this video is the bookstore where the original…
