Tom Smith hypothesizes that there are two kinds of people, those who like kids and those who don’t. I’ve noticed the same divide in many nonpolitical contexts. People without children have a very different sensibility and set of priorities. And I agree with his conclusion:
This is a gap so wide I can’t [...]
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Two Kinds of People
Posted in Children, Politics, tagged Children on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“I’m going down to Moe’s for a couple of beers.”
Posted in Children, Politics, law, liberty, regulation, tagged alcohol, law on April 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
That’s what Bart Simpson told his family in “Homer v. the Eighteenth Amendment.” “I’ll go with you!” said Homer. Marge put a stop to it, and that was that—except, of course, that Bart’s drinking started a temperance campaign that led to prohibition. As the episode illustrates, things get complicated when the government [...]
Happy Birthday, Melanie!
Posted in Children, tagged Children, Melanie on March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My younger daughter is sixteen today.
Sixteen years ago, the day started in very civilized fashion. She was scheduled to be induced. My wife drove to the hospital as I read a Wall Street Journal editorial criticizing Paul Tsongas for calling Bill Clinton a “pander bear” in the days before the Florida primary. [...]
Happy Birthday, Molly!
Posted in Children, tagged birthday on February 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My daughter is twenty today. It stuns me to think that twenty years have gone by since she was born at 5:41am. We barely got to the hospital in time; she was almost born in our 1979 Buick, and then, at the hospital, was almost delivered by a very confused-looking podiatrist.
Waking Up Teenagers
Posted in Children, tagged sleep, teenagers on February 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Perhaps it’s because I have two of them, but I think maybe I’ve never grown up. Why do so many things start so early? (Not that I do many of them.)
For the Children
Posted in Children, Politics, economics, tagged Children, economics, entitlements on January 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Robert Samuelson reminds us that the best thing we could do for our children is reform entitlement programs—something we should have done in the 1970s.
I Have No Words….
Posted in Children, ethics, tagged Children, ethics on December 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Michelle Malkin: A Dutch couple who adopted a South Korean girl as a baby, when they thought they couldn’t have children, has given her back now that they have two children of their own. Some insightful comments on her thread:
What is this poor child going to think for the rest of her life?
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