I was inspired by the most recent entry from frabjous_day (a link to Yahweh's Law of Sidewalks) to dig up "Lamentations of the Father" - a piece written by Ian Frazier for the Atlantic Monthly back in February 1997.  It's a code of conduct for young children written in the language of Deuteronomy. This was one of the first things I remember being passed around ( Read more... )

I ran across this baby name website (bigbadbabynames.com) where people dish on the absurd or pretentious things some people name their babies. Don't know why I got sucked into that site or why I'm so interested in the things people name their kids. (I always have been - I can't put down my kids' school directories when they first get them at the ( Read more... )