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Archive for April, 2007

TRADE-OFFS

This weekend we had a ton of fun in honor of my boy’s fourth birthday, which is today by the way. We went to Lancaster, PA in search of a real live steam engine and boy did we find it! I felt like a little kid again when the the big black iron [...]

ET TU, RUSSELL SIMMONS?

Yesterday Russell Simmons came out publicly in support of banning the words h-word, b-word and n-word from hip-hop music. The black community, in my opinion, has much bigger things to worry about.  Removing three words from rap music will not solve poverty, crime, lack of education, lack of financial parity, self hate, prisons overpoulated with [...]

FORGET RAPPERS, LET’S GO AFTER PUBLIC BATHROOM DESIGNERS!

My boy was not potty trained at this time last year (he was a late bloomer). So maybe that’s why only recently I’ve started to understand that men’s bathrooms are stupid. The urinals are too high for the average five year old to walk up to and do his business, much less a [...]