It was a bit much thinking that Gawker would have a vision and follow through. Oh well, nice concept while it lasted.

So when is adequate man being phased out? It’s pretty clear that the original direction of the blog has petered out and is now just a random catch-all.

My favorite thing ever is when parents of kids 7 or younger talk about how they are homeschooling. No, you’re parenting. Reading books, going to museums, playing outside, arranging group play dates....that’s all the same shit the rest of us do with the elementary school set. Talk to me when shit gets real and you’re…

I don’t demand tax breaks for being childless because an educated society benefits me. I don’t begrudge a penny I pay towards public schools and would pay more if it would make them better.

I have strong (and strongly biased) feeling on this subject because I and my siblings were homeschooled through the end of eight grade back in the 80s/early 90s. My parents homeschooled us because they were conservative Christians and didn’t want us corrupted by the evil influences of “the world” (which also meant…

I go back on forth on how we would educate our potential offspring whenever the hubs and I discuss whether this is the year of kids. All your issues with public education I share.

My problems with homeschooling are as follows:

It’s almost like that’s what most of the time in teacher training programs is devoted to teaching.

I try really hard not to criticize how other people parent their children... Co-sleep or cry it out, natural birth or c-section, attachment parenting or au pair, working mom or stay at home, I won’t weigh in on another parents decisions in any of those areas.

I told my (now) wife something early when we started shacking up: You can tell me what to do, or how to do it. But not both.

“fibre” Canadian or typo?

Lending out books to friends is like lending money to family: you need to assume it is gone forever and anything that comes back is a bonus.

The obvious answer here is a scheme of injuring yourself on the table saw and then suing the landlord for leaving it there.

Hey look. Vegan propaganda that doesn’t add up.

I think for business, economics, and scientific fields (social sciences not included), majors are absolutely necessary. Otherwise, a good education matters less on the major and more of the backing behind it- coursework, work ethic, on-the-job skills. Something like St. John’s College, where the major is Liberal Arts…

“Malcolm Gladwell is what stupid people think smart people sound like.”

I’m 31 and newly married to someone 5 years younger than me, and we are in no rush at all to have kids. I’ll happily be an old dad. A good chunk of my friends are late 20's to early 30's and already have at least one kid, some have two. I’m so goddamn tired of their kids being all over the place that my wife and I…

My current pet peeve with business talk is changing nouns to verbs and vice versa. “Ask” has become a noun. “What’s the ask here?”

What exactly is the purpose of the “Adequate Man” vertical? This is an entire article built around a one sentence block quote in the NYT that basically says “yeah man, subways are crowded sometimes.” WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH MEN?

Create a five-year moratorium on flying with a child. you can do it; I promise. I wish the airlines wouldn’t incentivize parents to bring small children.

This is a really good essay about a horrible experience; the idea that producers are fine with the idea of invading somebody’s life like this baffles me as much as the reality that enough people sign the release to make it worth their while.