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June 17, 2012

Living in a Father’s Paradise [Darleen Click]

A funny thing happened on the way to the forum

A modicum of common sense set in. Sadly, it’s likely too little, too late.

“The book belongs in the category of literature and memoir, not history and autobiography. The themes of the book control character and chronology.” [Darleen Click]

So writes David Maraniss of Barack Obama’s putative autobiography Dreams of my Father Maraniss’s Barack Obama: The Story punctures two sets of falsehoods: The family tales Obama passed on, unknowing; and the stories Obama made up. The 672-page book closes before Obama enters law school, and Maraniss has promised another volumne, but by its conclusion I counted 38 instances in which the biographer convincingly disputes significant elements of Obama’s own

Happy Father’s Day, redux

Unless you’re Hitler. Or some of his confederates. — Then it’s not been the best of weeks, frankly. (thanks to geoffb)

Happy Father’s Day [Darleen Click]

As much as certain factions of contemporary society attempt to demean, diminish or dismiss the role of father in furtherance of a political ideology, we know better. For all the fathers, grandfathers, uncles and step-dads — indeed any man who has assumed the important and vital role of raising children with a balance of discipline, humility, respect and love — we publicly honor you today. You may get cards, breakfast