Cheap Tricks

I recently came across the results of an Urban Institute study that set out to determine how much it costs to raise a child up to age eighteen. The numbers ranged from about $52,000 per poor child to $143,000 for a well-to-do one. Now that these figures have been released,…

Jesus Swiped My Goldfish

The morning coffee had yet to complete the perk cycle when my three-year-old son hollered, “Daddy! Come look! Come look!” I get this request about 3,000 times a day. There was no reason to suspect I was being summoned to view anything more unusual than a Lego spaceship, a wooden-block…

Moniker Madness

Every day, newspaper headlines scream of crimes against children. Yet there is one rampant horror you never read about. Its victims are helpless newborns, and it destroys their lives. Fact: Every 26 seconds in this country, a child is born with an idiotic name. Why the government hasn’t stepped in,…

Dog Daze

The facts have been hushed up for over thirty years due to a provision in Walt Disney’s will. However, you are about to learn the real reason Dorothy McGuire made Tommy Kirk shoot Old Yeller. And rabies had nothing to do with it. But first, let me present a shocking…