Dad Gone Mad

We at The Ris­ing Blog­ger see a lot of “mommy blogs.” Dia­pers and car­pools and tem­per­a­tures at mid­night cre­ate a com­fort­able com­raderie of mis­ery and joy in the blo­gos­phere. Today we dis­cov­ered a “daddy blog” of sorts. In fact, this for­mer sports­writer dad has gone stark rav­ing Dad Gone Mad mad. In his post dated May 21, 2007 Open Dis­cus­sion: Who Really Cares About Celebri­ties? we found his eval­u­a­tion of our col­lec­tive fas­ci­na­tion with the rich and famous, well, scin­til­lat­ing. And we don’t mean Britney’s lat­est frock. Or lack thereof.

The pub­lic sins of celebri­ties and the exag­ger­ated deprav­ity that usu­ally fol­lows is explained in this self-effacing piece with a touch of humil­ity. He writes, “If we saw in our­selves the sad, ugly, incon­sis­tent behav­iors we see in Brit­ney and Lind­say and Paris, we’d have to con­front our own weak­nesses. And that’s hard. Really hard. Too hard.“
We like his hon­esty. And his brand of madness.

That’s why he is today’s win­ning Post of the Day Con­grat­u­la­tions!

Review writ­ten by MIMI LENOX.