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Peg Bracken Versus The FLYlady

December 1, 2020 by Naomi Kritzer 6 Comments

When my older daughter was a baby, we needed a plumber for a broken faucet. The guy who came was running a probably-unauthorized side business hawking household products, and he pitched his product to me when he was done fixing the faucet: sink polish. “It’ll make your sink look new,” he told me enthusiastically. I…

Filed Under: Endings Tagged With: cult of cleanliness, flylady, i hate to cook, i hate to housekeep, peg bracken

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5 Terrific Games You Should Be Playing Instead of Trivial Pursuit

May 13, 2019 by Naomi Kritzer 1 Comment

Do people still play Trivial Pursuit? (I mean, it’s fine if it’s taking the form of a Pub Quiz, but as a family?) My recollection of Trivial Pursuit was playing it at slumber parties in the 1980s and being completely unable to answer any of the questions because it was a game carefully engineered for Baby…

Filed Under: Critic Tagged With: apples to apples, board games, cards against humanity, curses, likewise, morphology, party, telestrations, trivial pursuit

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Your Gender Neutral Toy Paradise Isn’t Gender Neutral After All

May 13, 2019 by Naomi Kritzer 2 Comments

Target made a big deal last month about how they were taking down the signs designating toys being for girls or boys. I was a little startled by this, because I was pretty sure that I’d never actually seen a sign designating the girls’ aisles and the boys’ aisles: you were supposed to figure it…

Filed Under: Endings, Featured Tagged With: gender neutral toys, toys

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Those Decluttering Tips Are All Filthy Lies

March 12, 2019 by Naomi Kritzer 11 Comments

How about an article about decluttering? I asked my editor. It’s the New Year! Lots of people resolve to declutter! I could look up decluttering tips and then try them out and see how they go! Sure, she says. Sounds great. Do that one first. I have now established that I will even resort to…

Filed Under: Endings, Featured Tagged With: decluttering, messy

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Not All Dr. Seuss Books Are Classics. Trust Us.

November 4, 2018 by Naomi Kritzer 4 Comments

There’s a new Dr. Seuss book coming out in the summer, unearthed (fully illustrated, even) from his home. The new book is called What Pet Should I Get? and I find the excitement a little surprising given all the obscure Dr. Seuss books out there that most parents have never seen. This isn’t going to…

Filed Under: Critic

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The Halcyon Days When Scandals, Gaffes, and Flubs Ended Presidential Campaigns

August 30, 2018 by Naomi Kritzer Leave a Comment

“In a normal year, this could be a campaign-ending event,” people (mostly in the media) have said as Trump has re-Tweeted neo-Nazis, lied about his charitable donations, casually suggested pulling out of NATO, and most recently (as of this writing) asked a hostile foreign power to spy on us to benefit his campaign. (Editor’s note:…

Filed Under: Endings, Featured Tagged With: presidential campaigns, trump

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Your Beard Is Full Of Bacteria But So Is Everything Else

January 19, 2018 by Naomi Kritzer Leave a Comment

Apparently today’s science news is that men’s beards are gross and full of poop. I guess I’ll skip straight to the good news for beard fans, which is that you can safely ignore everything about this news story. I mean, if a beard is stinky, then definitely wash it; that’s sort of obvious, yeah? But…

Filed Under: SciTech Tagged With: bacteria, beards

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When Good Science Turns Into Bad Reporting

November 12, 2017 by Naomi Kritzer 6 Comments

Sometimes you’ll see something that’s easily identified as straight-up bullshit, like celebrities talking about which herbs to take to protect against solar radiation when flying, or just about anything whatsoever from the naturalnews.com Facebook page. (No, we are not linking to that. Do not go to there.) But other times you’ll see articles that are…

Filed Under: SciTech Tagged With: science reporting

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Here Is Your Semi-Scientific Proof That Everyone Hates Comic Sans

October 30, 2017 by Naomi Kritzer 1 Comment

Extreme font neepery is one of those hobbies that I’ve never gotten into. I mean, I have my preferences: I like serif fonts over sans serif fonts and I think anyone over the age of fifteen who uses Comic Sans for anything should question their life choices, but I am not someone who reads the…

Filed Under: Featured, SciTech

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Six Terrific Strategy Games You Should Be Playing Instead of Monopoly

October 8, 2017 by Naomi Kritzer 1 Comment

Do you like board games? If so, you should keep reading because it’s always validating to see people recommend the stuff you like, and I’m probably about to do that. Did you like board games as a kid, but quit playing at some point because you realized that Clue was just an exercise in the…

Filed Under: Critic Tagged With: discworld, dominion, forbidden island, mage wars, mystery of the abbey, strategy games

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