No parents were harmed in the making of the slumber party. Nobody broke anything, or cried, or abused the cat. (Total injuries: One nonbleeding scrape, which was fixed with a Pirates of the Caribbean type band-aid.) Note to self for the future: teenagers eat a lot of food. There is no such thing as “I’m [...]
Edited: Athenian Abroad kindly pointed out that I referred back to the previous “the sky is falling” report by the NEA, which was issued in 2002. The latest report can be accessed here. The National Endowment for the Arts is supposed to promote the arts, of course, so one is unsurprised to find them arguing [...]
The short version: As soon as you start whining about how coddled Kids These Days are and how overprotecting [other] parents are, you have officially become a blathering old fart, and you might as well have a disclaimer slung around your neck: “Please disregard the above as fatally tainted with half-assed nostalgia. Also, my memory [...]
Yes, I am old enough to remember Gerald Ford being President. My only real commentary on his time as President was that, as a very young child, I apparently had some dim awareness of inflation and that things cost too much, and that poor people couldn’t afford food. (That would have been my dad’s explanation, [...]