In a brief post the other day, I made a modest proposal: gay activists should offer a deal to opponents of gay marriage: if you support gay marriage, we’ll support efforts to reduce the divorce rate. I wanted to unpack this idea a bit. First, some opponents of same sex marriage say their big fear…

It’s fair game to make fun of nervous nellies who protect their kids too much but I just got an email passalong from a relative that has me seething. The full email is after the jump but it’s basically a funny list of all the dangerous things we did as kids. “First, we survived being…

Some tips for parents trying to help a child through the loss of a pet. Most interesting: don’t use euphemisms like “God took Buffy to heaven.” Experts Allen and Linda Anderson say “these ways of describing death can be confusing to children and can cause them to fear going to sleep or getting sick, to…

Gay marriage leads to polygamy which leads to man-on-dog marraige which leads to some very awkward sex with robots. The Washington Monthly mocks the latest slippery slope argument on gay marriage. Reminds me of an idea, though. If gay marriage opponents fear the slippery slope, why don’t gay activists offer conservatives a deal: you support…

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