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Watch Joe Jackson Stoically Use His Son's Death to Plug a DVD

The Cajun Boy · 06/28/09 09:11PM

This is just awful. Earlier tonight CNN's Don Lemon interviewed Joe Jackson on the red carpet at the BET awards, where Jackson displayed indifference over the recent death of his son and then plugged some Blu-Ray disc he's peddling.

Bad Father's Day Gifts, #1

Hamilton Nolan · 06/10/09 09:39AM

When you think "Father-Son bonding experiences," you think "spending an evening in the home of Randall Jones, the used-car-salesman-esque founder of Worth magazine, hearing him extol the virtues of each and every one of his '12 Commandments' for becoming the 'Richest Man in Town.'"

The Baby Daddy Diet

cityfile · 06/02/09 10:19AM

"A British research firm is reporting that the average weight gained during pregnancy is 14 pounds—and that's by the babies' fathers." The men involved in the study reported they added two inches, on average, to their waistlines and a quarter indicated that they gained the weight out of a "desire to make their partner feel better about her own weight gain." And yet only 30 percent joined their partner in a diet after the baby arrived. Typical. [NYT]

Washington Post Editor's Dad Has Anti-Bush Blog

Ryan Tate · 07/23/08 06:14AM

You remember Marcus Brauchli? First, short-lived editor of the Wall Street Journal under the reign of Rupert Murdoch and now the newly-installed executive editor of the Washington Post? Well, it's a good thing Brauchli finally escaped the Journal, because Paul Gigot and his gang of conservative editorialists must have given him unending grief over his father's awesome left-wing blog! We were just alerted to the existence of the site, but the dad, a lawyer and contributor to sites like Spot-On and Counterpunch, has been at it for some time, posting items steadily since 2005. Officially, Christopher Brauchli's site is about more than Bush — "political commentary and satire," the tagline reads — but, more often than not, the president makes an appearance. And you know what? The site is pretty damn funny! In fact, I'll take Christopher Brauchli's posts over most of the op-ed content in American newspapers, the Post and Journal included. After the jump, a sampling.

Emily Gould · 12/10/07 02:50PM

Have you noticed how straight dudes of a certain age always have a child with them in their Facebook profile photos? They probably think it mitigates against the creepiness of their being on Facebook in the first place but somehow it does not.

Stay-At-Home Dad LeDuff Can't Stop Overwriting

Choire · 11/08/07 01:05PM

How does it feel for former Timesman Charlie LeDuff to be unemployed and raising his kid—does he miss the "late-night cocktails, accepting prizes, speaking at prestigious universities"? Well!