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You may have heard about the air-traffic controller at JFK who let his kid step up to the microphone and start directing planes last month. And you can’t quite hate the FAA for coming down like a ton of aircraft parts on the guy. It’s bad enough up there, where the flights are arriving and [...]

Now, I’m not one to necessarily condone leaving your wife of 16 years and your three kids for another woman, but on some level I approve of the mini-scandal echoing out of England (via Cambridge, Mass.): Niall Ferguson, a Harvard professor, hedge-funder, and TV presenter with, as the Daily Mail puts it, “high-level links to [...]

Now, I’m not the world’s greatest expert on the works of J.D. Salinger. I’m probably the only guy who read “The Catcher in the Rye” only once (it seems you either never read it—or read it 40 times), and the descriptions I saw of his insufferable Glass family just about guaranteed I’d never pick up [...]

Here’s how breakfast went down this morning: me with my daughter on my shoulders, speed-walking down Columbus Avenue to get her to school on time, while she ate an unadorned Eggo waffle. I think it was fairly obvious to most passersby that I was the kind of parent who woke my kid up late and [...]