I’m really disappointed, perhaps because I used to really admire Ben Stein for his intelligence. I used to dream that one day I could have my ass handed to me on Win Ben Stein’s Money, even after Jimmie Kimmel left the show. But then I found out about his new movie, Expelled, which looks at the alleged persecution against scientists who believe in Intelligent Design.

 
I can’t believe that someone I used to think was so bright is so dim when it comes to the scientific method. Word up, Stein - if the scientific method made room for conjecture that had absolutely no physical evidence, it wouldn’t be very scientific, would it?

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Sometimes I forget things - little things, like where I put my keys and stuff like that. I always feel like an idiot when I do this, but I guess I shouldn’t feel so bad, considering it was recently discovered that Toronto’s own Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) had misplaced the skeletal remains of a Barosaurus, an 85 foot long, 150 million year old long-necked herbivore from the Jurassic Period.

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It appears my two and a half year old son has picked up one of my more annoying childhood habits, putting his own cute yet disgusting spin on it. When I was a kid, I felt compelled to duplicate anything that I’d seen get a laugh on TV (If I could only have back the time I’d wasted pretending I was Mork from Ork), and it appears that he’s following in my footsteps in this regard.

Although this will be his third Christmas, it’s the first time he’s noticing patterns and sensing that we’re building up to something pretty big. To help set the mood, we’ve been using our personal video recorder (PVR) to record some of the shows they’ve already been showing for at least a week on network TV. Among these have been some of the classics, such as Dr. Suess’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the original with Boris Karloff, of course) and A Charlie Brown Christmas (with its lovely soundtrack by Vince Guaraldi). Read the rest of this entry »

As I was blogging last night, my wife was watching the latest episode of Desperate Housewives on TV. Well, you could’ve knocked me over with a feather when the Martha Stewart wannabe character announced she wanted to adopt the concept of the Family Bed while raising her illegitimate child as her own.

As messed up as that may sound, I guess anything that helps get the word out about attachment parenting can’t be a bad thing, even if the same character also made a big deal out of circumcising the kid because just she didn’t want his willy to look funny.

I’m always genuinely surprised when I see the concepts that shaped the way my wife and I decided to raise our children being referenced in mainstream media. For anyone else interested in co-sleeping with their infants, you might also want to check out Three in a Bed. As the pizzeria guy said on the show, you just have to get creative. ;) Read the rest of this entry »

For last night’s family movie, my wife picked the Pixar classic Monster’s Inc. I guess it’s been a while since I’ve seen the film (which I’ve watched with my daughter dozens of times), because I totally forgot that Nemo makes a cameo in this film even before he shows up in his own film. Monsters Inc. came out in 2002, whereas Finding Nemo didn’t come out until 2003.

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