Bad Dads We Love: Chastity Cop

September 28th, 2010 by Nathan | No Comments

Actually, no love for this father. A San Jose police officer finds out his 14-year-old daughter was banging some skinny little slip of a 15-year-old boy, and decides to scare the young man by coming to his home in full uniform, handcuffing him and talking ominously about filing an “informational report” to the sexual assault investigator [...]


The Meaning of Giving Life, or Why We Screw in Summer

May 28th, 2010 by Theodore | 5 Comments

So JP’s birthday is tomorrow, which is not what this post is about. This post about sex, late-summer early-fall sex, the kind of sex that results in children born … on Memorial Day weekend. Am I imagining this, or are half of the children that I know having birthdays coming up this weekend or week? [...]


Widowers: Slate wants to keep you from getting laid

March 4th, 2010 by Nathan | 5 Comments

OK, so Slate is only trying to keep you from getting laid if you’re trying to bed your child’s babysitter, but still. I was somehow elected by DadWagon to take on this topic, I think out of some confusion: I said earlier that a previous babysitter had a crush on my son, not me crushing [...]


On Inbreeding

February 25th, 2010 by Nathan | 2 Comments

We’re don’t do much kid-dialog here at DadWagon (we prefer to leave that sort of thing to Sweet Juniper, who has a fine eye for the detail of juvenile repartee). But here it is anyhow: Yesterday evening, when Nico, who’s almost 2, was being put to bed, Dalia got serious, in the way that 4-year-olds do. She [...]




  

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