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Via Gawker comes a tale of pedo-panic in San Francisco:
Everyone knows the only thing people do with their cell phones is take weird sex pictures. When moms saw a man lurking around San Francisco’s Mountain Lake Park apparently taking cell phone pics of their kids, they leaped into action.
That is, they took pictures of him, [...]

I’m no militant on population replacement, but in general I think it would be swell if willing Americans had a kid or two. Somebody needs to pay for Social Security, and someone will need to change my diapers in a few years.
That’s why I found my conversation a little depressing yesterday–even though it was during [...]

From this week’s New Yorker, a funny one:
Congratulations! The application on behalf of your child for a place in the pre-kindergarten class for the 2012-13 academic year at The School has been rejected. This permits you to begin the Type-A Parent Appeal Process. We think of it as just the kind of challenge that makes [...]

(This is the second post in our new series, “The Tantrum,” in which each of our four regulars will address one subject over the course of a week. Read the first one here.)

See this freighter here? That’s what I would guess the imaginary container ship—the one I lied to my 3-year-old about—would look like. At [...]