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NEW NORMAL GOSSIP MERCH!

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<p>Columnist. Author of many <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Drew-Magary/e/B001JS8R52/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1">fine works of literature</a>, including <em>Point B</em>. Handsomest man in the world.</p>


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Drew Magary

Mother trying to make daughter (4-5) finish food at table. It's an old stock photo from the 1940s.

Mother trying to make daughter (4-5) finish food at table, (B&W)

Dadfector

A Taxonomy Of Mom Sounds

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Ray Ratto

GREEN BAY, WI - JULY 24: Green Bay Packers shareholders fill Lambeau Field for the Green Bay Packers Shareholders meeting on July 24, 2019 at Lambeau Field, in Green Bay, WI. (Photo by Larry Radloff/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

NFL: JUL 24 Green Bay Packers Shareholders Meeting

God Help Me, My Son’s Marrying A Packers Shareholder

Group portrait of a company playing cards around a table, Frits L.J. Moormans (mentioned on object), Den Bosch, c. 1865 - c. 1880, photographic support, albumen print, height 74 mm × width 91 mm. (Photo by: Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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I Am The Bullshit King Of My Household

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Arts And Culture

I Am A ‘Top Boy’ Boy Now

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Justin Ellis

Illustration of a father looking surprised at a baby on a changing table, surrounded by a pile of laundry and a vacuum cleaner.

No One Can Tell You How To Dad

A mother marks her son's height on the door with a pencil, circa 1950. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Growing Boy

When Your Kids Are Kids Again


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Typing

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As A Father Of Tadpoles

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Albert Burneko

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Life Lessons

Life Comes At You Fast

Dave McKenna

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In Praise Of Food Tourism

STOCKTON, CA - SEPTEMBER 29: A school bus carries children at sunrise on Bethel Island, one of the residential islands surrounded by levees that hold back the higher waters of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta on September 29, 2005 west of Stockton, California. Officials say that the dikes of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta are in worse shape than those that broke and flooded New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. There is a two-in-three chance that a catastrophic earthquake or storm in the next 50 years may damage the levees enough to cause the kind of destruction that engulfed New Orleans, according to experts. Such an event would affect the water supply that serves two-thirds of California and create a nightmare traffic jam on Highway 4, the two-lane road that would be the major evacuation route, if it is not damaged beyond usability. Approximately 1,600 miles of levees protect the delta's islands, which lie well below sea-level, and most were built more than 100 years ago. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

California Levee System Vulnerable To Natural Disasters

The Last Bus

BOULDER, COLORADO - APRIL 22: Head coach Deion Sanders of the Colorado Buffaloes watches as his team warms up prior to their spring game at Folsom Field on April 22, 2023 in Boulder, Colorado. (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)

Colorado Football Spring Game

Don’t Rank Your Children, You Domineering Prick

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Scrabble Is Home

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<div>Casey Taylor is a writer living and working in Pittsburgh. He is currently writing a book for St. Martin&#8217;s Press about cannabis religions, Haile Selassie I, and the Cold War in the Caribbean. He also writes a free newsletter called <a href="https://weedchurch.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://weedchurch.substack.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1709306863919000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1mVH2xiID6S0zvlyj6yHco">Weed Church</a> covering foolish spiritual things that occur to him. His work has appeared in The New Republic, WIRED, New York Magazine, and a sports blog he can’t currently recall the name of. You can <a href="mailto:caseyt7@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">email</a> him if you’d like.</div>
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HUNTINGTON BEACH CA - FEBRUARY 4 : A SWAT team member enacts defense against school violence . SWAT teams from many Police forces throughout America and Canada participate in a realistic training exercises at various High Schools throughout America to help combat the rise in shooting and violence on Campus. April 19, 2001 Huntington Beach High School, Huntington Beach California (Photo By Paul Harris/Getty Images)

Realistic Training  Scenarios For SWAT teams to Combat The Rise In School Shootings

How To Train A Lamb For The Slaughter

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Lily The Scammer

Free Things My Small Child Was Given In France And Italy, Ranked

Mass Shooting At Elementary School In Uvalde, Texas Leaves 21 Dead

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What It’s Like Here

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You Deserve A Dad Pat Today

Father entertains five children with a toy airplane as mother carries in a tray of food circa 1950. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Playing With The Kids

34 Things I Say To My Kids A Million Times A Day

American vaudeville actor Ray Bolger (1904 - 1987) prepares for the opening of WJZ-TV by the American Broadcasting Company at the Palace Theater in New York City, 10th August 1948. (Photo by Graphic House/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

An Audience Of One

Elder Wisdom

The Best Time To Watch A Movie Is First Thing In The Morning

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And Now … Dad Sounds

<p><a href="https://twitter.com/ericnus">Eric Nusbaum</a> is a writer based in Tacoma, Washington. He is the author of the book <i><a href="https://bookshop.org/books/stealing-home-los-angeles-the-dodgers-and-the-lives-caught-in-between-9781541742222/9781541742215">Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between</a></i>. He is also a former editor at Vice.</p>


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Illustration of Chris Ballew, performing as Caspar Babypants, by Adam Villacin

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Chris Ballew Went Platinum On The Way To Becoming Caspar Babypants

Protesters hold up signs opposing vaccine mandates.

The Personal Choice Not Everybody Gets To Make

Schoolchilden queueing in pairs to get on the school bus, circa 1960. (Photo by L. Willinger/FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

School Bus Queue

FUCK YEAH! IT’S THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!

393787 01: Hector Ofunio applies suntan lotion to the back of his friend Leandro Munoz August 28, 2001 at the beach on Key Biscayne, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Suntan Lotion Popular on Florida Beach

Lemme Explain The Sunscreen

attends Kevin Hart hosts Mohegan Sun's 20th Anniversary Comedy All-Star Gala starring Sarah Silverman, Dave Attell, Margaret Cho &amp; more at Mohegan Sun on October 14, 2016 in Uncasville, Connecticut.

Kevin Hart Hosts Mohegan Sun’s 20th Anniversary Comedy All-Star Gala Starring Sarah Silverman, Dave Attell, Margaret Cho & More

I Have Passed On To My 9-Year-Old A Love Of Dirty Comedians