We know that cancer is evil, but we may not have a good idea of just how much of an impact it has on life every year. So here’s a fact about cancer that ought to chill you: There were an estimated 1.5 million new cases of cancer in the United States in 2010. Compare…
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Find Out What Was in the Bag, and Let’s Do Some Good
Do you remember Backpacking Dad’s Mystery Prize Giveaway? People submitted guesses about what was in the bag. Somebody won the Mystery Prize. So that part is over. But there was a second part to the Mystery Prize Giveaway. Whoever guessed correctly would also win something. Kind of. I promised to promote their favourite charity through…
Banning Dads from Parent Groups: Some comments about philosophy
Start here for the background to this post: Daddy Dialectic: Parent with a Penis? Can’t Join the Golden Gate Mothers Group. I don’t really have anything to add to the conversation except that it’s a hard philosophical position to take that would allow one to say “It is better that this world include mother-networking groups that…