8 Responses to “World’s Best Dad”

1. 1 1 Andy
   August 9, 2012 at 10:48 am

   I’m not sure, imagine the standards this poor child will set on most things in later life, bound to be disappointed over and over :)

2. 2 2 Ken B
   August 9, 2012 at 11:44 am

   The sad thing is, this is almost certainly illegal.

3. 3 3 David Pinto
   August 9, 2012 at 1:45 pm

   I want one.

   One of my good friends had his children at a later age. They bought a plastic, straight roller coaster than fit in their living room. It had two or three bumps, and the small children could put the car in the starting position and climb in by themselves.

   My backyard is mostly used by my schoodle to run around, so there’s plenty of room for an adult size one. I even suspect I could rig a pulley system on a tree to manually lift up myself in the car. Hours of fun!

4. 4 4 Matt Mitchell
   August 13, 2012 at 2:57 pm

   I had a dad like this. He built me a playhouse on stilts with an electric-powered drawbridge and a trap door. I did not inherit his handiness and am a little worried about what happens when my daughter is old enough to ask me about my childhood.

5. 5 5 nobody.really
   August 14, 2012 at 6:24 pm

   Apropos of nothing —

   Last March Landsburg took us through some cool hypotheticals about selecting two people for death out of a pool of two married couples. Maybe I’m just twisted, but I loved that stuff – I really don’t have much of a framework for thinking about these issues — and I suspected that Landsburg was building to some larger theme.

   Was I mistaken? Or did I miss the larger theme here? I still don’t have much of a framework!

6. 6 6 Steve Landsburg
   August 14, 2012 at 10:47 pm

   nobody.really: I was in fact building toward a larger theme and I got sidetracked. I’ll try to get back to this.

7. 7 7 nobody.really
   August 15, 2012 at 12:13 am

   [Mad wagging. Ears perched. Drooling slightly.]

   Oh? Hey, great; that’d be nice. I mean, when you find the time.

   [Cue plaintive whines and periodic pawwing.]

8. 8 8 nobody.really
   August 23, 2012 at 4:24 pm

   Again apropos of nothing –

   The Pew Research Center has a new report out regarding the declining prospects for the US middle class.

   I speculate that the large middle class — characteristic of the US since WWII — exists largely due to government policies contrived to funnel money to it. As we dismantle these policies in the name of efficiency, the middle class shrinks.

   Question: Does it matter? Is it an appropriate goal of democratic government to promote the existence of a large middle class?