Family

My wife turns 40 today. No, she won't mind this indiscretion. Other than toddlers, she's the least self-conscious person I've ever met. So what tribute can I give my wife on this occasion, her official entry into middle-agedom? How about this: The

Pleasant evening Friday. Nothing was going on. I came home from work, tapped into a six pack of Fletcher Street Brewery [http://fletcherstreetbrewing.com/] Wheat Ale that my father brought back for me from Alpena, Michigan and read The Life You Save May Be Your Own [http://www.amazon.com/

The sterile environmentalists [http://quaffsandquibbles.blogspot.com/2007/11/what-will-they-think-of-next.html] . One of the top ten short (under 250 words) blog posts of the year. __________ Op-ed of the day: Families are good for cities and cities better be good to families [http://www.opinionjournal.

Whew, whirlwind weekend. We went [the "w" alliteration ends now] to Detroit Thursday afternoon to see my wife's family: First a stop in Livonia at her aunt's, then to her parents' in Grosse Pointe Woods. Friday morning, Grosse Pointe parade, followed by a

It's not a good thing. Article at The Register [http://ncregister.com/site/article/2151] (subscription might be required). Excerpt: > The American Psychological Association's report concluded that sexualization was damaging to all women, but particularly to younger girls who are still forming a sense of

Well, I think this is a first: I'm posting family pictures. These were taken with my camera phone (a technology I just recently learned). The quality isn't great, but I think you can see them well enough. Jack and Michael in front of the limo before

If they shrink babies, there'll be nothing left. But that's not stopping some parents [http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/1024wsj-infant-psychotherapy24-ON.html] .

Criminy. I didn't get to bed until almost midnight last night, and I don't even have a few beers left over in my system to show for it. If you look under my FAQ, you'll see this statement: > With my seventh child on

The U.S. will hit 300,000,000 people [http://www.census.gov/population/www/popclockus.html] today or tomorrow. Let the misanthropes mope. The rest of us can be happy and ask, "If more people means less wealth to go around, why are Americans richer than ever?"

Doug Giles has a good series going: Raising Girls that Pimps and Thugs Will Hate. [http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DougGiles]. Good stuff. It's revolves around a list of ten suggestions. Excerpt from first column [http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DougGiles/2006/09/30/raising_girls_that_pimps_