Whinydad Chronicle

• Enslaved vs. Freed

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  "I don't necessarily believe that the truth sets you free," says the woman whose father left her many mysteries about his life before, during and after his incarceration in Bergen-Belsen during World War II, "but I don't want to be enslaved by secrets." Despite that, Vicky Grandon will not [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 8:27am EST
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• Comedy Yes, Sleep and Kitsch No

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  One father's kitsch is another dad's crap. So, while someone must purchase this sort of thing, the only thing that occurs when squinting at this week's objet d'eBay, a wall decoration in bronze of a baby's head and (presumably) daddy's back, is "who really thought'" [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 8:09am EST
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• From Nothing Evolves the Ultimate Father

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  From nothing something ... and something extraordinary. That is the only way to explain how it is that James Earl Jones (whose father was out of his life before he was in it) has come to play Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 8:20am EST
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• Why Unfold Mystery

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  It would be probably be helpful for fathers to understand fate a bit better so as to provide a steadier hand in leading children and grandchildren (and, hopefully, great- and perhaps even great-greatgrandchildren).
  
  Still, the mystical blending of suffering and glee that is existence is a tough nut to [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:05am EST
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• Who's My Daddy?!?!

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  Saturday, Nov. 21, was National Adoption Day in the United States. Fathers and their children celebrated in Olathe (Kansas), Plattsburgh (New York), Dallas (Texas), Rockford (Illinois) ....
  
  Pretty much across the country EXCEPT (we are pretty sure) for one household in LA, where the [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:05am EST
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• No, I didn't Say 'Rabbit Ears'

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  This week's objet d'eBay, a window decal declaring a mammalian parental relationship, may well be something to stock up on. Thanks to scientific advances, rabbit penises can now be grown ... and perhaps someday attached to humans much as we now have other [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 9:03am EST
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• Witnesses for the Defense?

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  It's not looking good for Barack Hussein Obama Sr., father of seven, including U.S. President Obama [Earlier: Dreams and Don't Lose Out to the Gatekeeper] and his half brother, Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo.
  
  The two, who got together for a few minutes recently when the president' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:28am EST
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• Drop Your Weapon

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  Can it really be true that one in five divorcing spouses (women, it seems from a recent article on why dads often get "the blame") admit to using the kids and custody as a weapon?
  
  The only good news from that line of questioning is that if it [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:12am EST
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• The Followers

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  There's the old saw to "lead, follow or get out of the way," but that's not quite how it works with the son-father dynamic. In most cases, sons can only choose to follow — as in the case of Bill Fisher, son of Gap Founder Don Fisher and newly [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:12am EST
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• Let's Use Fathers to Make Big Bucks

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  (US)$120,000,000.
  
  That's the WD prediction for the box office gross of Courageous, a movie coming soon to a pulpit near you, aimed at the primarily caucasian, prosperity and Pentacostal church audiences who brought $33 mill to Sherwood Productions for Fireproof.
  
  So far (and thanks to a year [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:06am EST
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• In (e)volved

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  Acts around the world are taking place to get dads involved with their kids. It may not be much for wealthy men in the Philippines to start up a "Father's Action Network/Dad's for Life" program or for new fathers to get little cards from the British National Health [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:14am EST
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• Evil Sung Lovely

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  Calling all opera(tors?) creators. Floating in the ether right now is the story that ends with a man learning about, maybe even learning to love his father right before his death. "I got to know him in the end," said Lindbergh Williams, 27, of the man he lost as [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 7:04am EST
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• Father Acts Best: The Uncomfortable Parody

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  The self-proclaimed parody of a 50's sitcom by Delphia Entertainment can make one a bit uncomfortable when it moves to pops explaining/demonstrating the lascivious manner in which he evened the score between his son and a bully. Still, at least someone with a video camera is (re)thinking the father-child' [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 8:54am EST
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• Foxy Father

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  Guy vows to straighten out his life when his wife tells him he'll be a father. It's a true story over and over that Roald Dahl wrote up in the book that has become the movie, The Fantastic Mr. Fox. Also true to life, Mr. Fox doesn't quite keep' [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:28am EST
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• Getting Press

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  An honorable book published by serious men in time for Veteran's Day is also — unfortunately for what it probably says about WD or pop culture — a somewhat smutty segue to other daddy news.
  
  The serious book, written by father and son Aaron and Nathan Keirns, is' [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 8:00am EST
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• Quiet Now, Loud Then

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  There was a father who told his daughters that they would always be part of one of America's greatest problems (racism, and all because they would forever have white skin). Yet, they still made a complimentary film about him. Disturbing the Universe [Earlier: Daddy Documentary], the tale of radical' [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 7:59am EST
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• Cracking the Image

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  The newest father on a book tour is tennis icon Andre Agassi. In Open: An Autobiography the man who once personified gloss &mdsash; is famous for his "image is everything" sales pitch [Earlier: Image Is ...] — telling the tale of how his father shaped him and how [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 8:22am EST
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• Inside Out Fatherhood Truths

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  If you can imagine fathers punished for acting well and a pop rewarded years after acting questionably mdash; perhaps the kindest way to phrase it, despite some extraordinary results — then the news about two Hoosier fathers, as well as Michael Jackson's daddy Joe.
  
  Now it is certainly possible' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:03am EST
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• Is Pops Preggers?

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  Pregnancy and men can get pretty confusing, particularly when someone says something like, "that dude doesn't have the huevos (eggs in Spanish, although balls, nerve, guts, bravery, etc. in the vernacular) for kids. [Earlier: Love and Longing in Pretend Land and Neo-Heavenly Father]
  
  Eggs, however, is exactly'" [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 7:49am EST
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• El Hijo de Mal In His Own Words

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  Dad was evil. Let's learn, forgive (not forget) and move on.That's the message of Pecados de me Padre, a new film featuring Sebastián Marroquín, son of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, as he seeks forgiveness for the sins of [his] father. It's a very unusual thought from a' [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 7:38am EST
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• It's Off to Work We Go

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  While the standard work flow is from father to child — or great-grandfather to grandfather to father to son, as in the case of the baseball-playing Muellers of Missouri — there are certainly plenty of cases of fathers finding their job through their children. Famously, now, we can add [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 8:08am EST
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• A Nnoying

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  TGFML. Thank God for Michael Lohan [Earlier: Wild or Too Mild? and Stats on Richer and Happier]. Day after day I hear from Things 1 & 2, "you [as in me] are sooooooooooooo (sometimes 'the most') annnooooyyying." However, now that screwed-up daughter/actress Lindsay is getting tweeted and [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 8:13am EST
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• When an Angel Gets His Wins

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  Today's hint for the father who has been a tyrant: do a [George] Steinbrenner and stay alive long enough to be feeble and remembered fondly. Thus, we have this week's objet d'eBay, the March 1, 1993 Sports Illustrated cover (highlighting the featured article, "Will'" [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 8:28am EST
  by whinydad