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I am fascinated with Octomom. That’s right. I’m a 30-something, heterosexual man that loves sports, the Godfather trilogy, AND trashy tabloid headlines with news about Nadya Suleman. Whatever you’re thinking, why don’t you say it to my face? Part of my fascination is seeing a parent trying to do with 14 kids what I can [...]
So I feel like I should be more excited for Disney-Pixar’s Brave than I am. And I actually feel a little guilty about my lack of excitement. Pixar’s first female-led movie! Turning the princess tropes upside-down and smashing the fairy tale paradigms! Or something! I dunno. On paper, Brave sounds completely amazeballs and full of [...]
There was a time I would argue there’s really no such thing as a bad pro-breastfeeding ad. I mean, what could ever be wrong with a public service announcement that encourages women to choose the natural way to nourish their infants whenever possible, meanwhile also discouraging any prudes and woman haters who shame them for [...]
So, I’m sitting in front of my Internets minding my own business—reading Facebook rants about Ann Romney and That Idiot who cut someone off in the middle school drop-off lane, or how everyone needs coffee—when this damn P&G London 2012 Summer Olympic Games “Film” gets posted on my wall: And now I’m weeping. And I [...]
Tupac Shakur, the gangster rapper who died 15 years ago, performed at the Coachella music festival in California on Sunday. Or, rather, his hologram did. Yes, that’s right, people. The future the scientists promised us IS HAPPENING NOW. The simulation — created by Digital Domain Media Group Inc., the visual-effects house responsible for making the [...]
This Sunday at 7pm/6pm central, Dateline NBC will be premeiring a new series called My Kid Would Never Do That. The show will place a variety of children in ostensibly dangerous situations with the help of actors and cameras, all in an effort to test their adherence to their parent’s caveats about interacting with strangers. [...]
Hold on your hats, ladies and gents: there’s now more things you can’t let your kids do if you’re a caring parent and have any idea what decency really means. In Tennessee, senators approved an update to the abstinence-only sex education system that classifies hand-holding and kissing as gateway sexual behavior. If passed, children would [...]
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