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(This is the Tantrum, in which Dadwagon’s writers debate one question over the course of a week. For previous Tantrums, click here.)
Last Friday I sat down at my desk and wrote out a few checks. Actually, a lot of checks. Or rather, a few checks that added up to more than I’ve ever disbursed at [...]

We each, in our own way, seek to love and honor our fathers, even if that sometimes means killing them after finding them “in the clinch” with our wives.
So it shouldn’t be so shocking that Samantha Bell would call her father — the sadsack IRS killer-pilot Joe Stack — a “hero.” She told Good Morning America [...]

Via Annie at PhD in Parenting, the studious Canadian momblogger, we came to know this article about how the next UK election is shaping up as the Mumsnet election. That is, the women of Mumsnet, the leading momblog in the UK, will be the next soccer moms or values voters or teabaggers or whatever the “it” [...]

As Theodore mentioned in his pithy ranticle from earlier today, the government does try to get involved in parenting from time to time.
But among jackbooted thuggery are some good programs, and those, naturally, are also opposed by conservatives.
Michael Salmonowicz at True/Slant points out  that the Heritage Foundation opposes a Chicago program called Parents Too Soon (reporter [...]