Looks like the crab-apple doesn’t fall far from the twisted stump of a tree:
In disclosures he was required to file as a legislator, [Ben] Stevens [son of U.S. Senator Ted Steven] said he was paid $243,000 over the last five years as a “consultant” to Veco. Whenever he was asked to describe what he did [...]
Forbes.com published a story Aug. 22 by editor Michael Noer on two-career relationships that provoked a heated response from both outside and inside our building. Elizabeth Corcoran, a member of our Silicon Valley bureau and principal author of the magazine’s current cover story on robots, sent in [a] rebuttal.
Distracted – Heth, From Under the Laundry Pile
see also Distracted, Part Two.
A good friend of mine writes about his recent promotion to father of one.
Fancier and fancier kitchens, emptier than ever before. (HT:
NRO’s Crunchy Con blog)
Rich Lowry’s tribute to fatherhood expounds upon the cultural utility of having intact families and intact marriages, as well as how the culture has suffered when it doesn’t.