Does anyone know what the Lawnmower Song is? I’m asking because Caleb requests it every night. Every. Night. Here’s out ritual: First, I get his PJ’s on while he dances all over my feet and pooches out his belly, making the whole enterprise a challenge, which seems to be his goal. Next, we read a …
Several days ago I was eating with my family in one of our favorite little restaurants, when I noticed from our table by the window a man in an electric wheelchair rolling slowly toward the entrance. After several seconds I realized that he had not come through the door. It occurred to me that he …
Click on this link, turn up your speakers, and listen to the late and dearly missed Red Skelton explain the meaning of the words in the Pledge of Allegiance. Have a happy Fourth of July, and remember your freedom was bought with somebody’s blood. It always is.
I came across this essay (via Curmudgeonry) by New York Times columnist Bill Keller, explaining the decision he and his wife made two years ago to abort their malformed child. It is thoughtful, and clearly painful for Keller to have written. It is also profoundly wrongheaded. Keller directs an obligatory slap at pro-life advocates (what …
