Wendell Jamieson, city editor for The New York Times and the author of Father Knows Less or "Can I Cook My Sister?": One Dad's Quest to Answer His Son's Most Baffling Questions (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2007), talks about answering kids' questions, from the whimsical to the more serious.
Father Knows Less is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
Father Knows Less is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
Comments [3]
BL show, Sept. 10, 2007
Re: airplane hitting Empire State building.
IT happened allready.
in the 1940s ( during WW II ? By a B-17 ?)
It is still there.
I doubt you have the answer to this but I have a question, which would hurt worse being shot by a gun or being shot with an arrow?
Who is producing this show? This segment is fine, but following a report on Iraq war money disappearances? A better segue would help the audience think about certain issues in toto. Would it kill the show to have slight "theme", or does all journalistic endeavour have to imiate the wretched "The Believer" and vy for some sort of brainy, irreverent "randomness"?
The intention is an engaging discussion of a wide scope of news topics; the effect is an inane, clumsy gearshifting.
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