In truth, Lowe is sitting pretty. Make that very pretty, since he doesn’t seem to actually ever age (along with Hollywood’s other wrinkle-free wonder, Paul Rudd). He’s back on set playing a firefighter who relocated from Manhattan to Austin on the Fox series 9-1-1: Lone Star. He’s recording his podcast. He’s kicking back in his luxurious digs in Santa Barbara, with his sons, wife Sheryl, and myriad pets. His boys, meanwhile, have done their dad proud....

Nobody would think less of Scott if he delegated all vegetable-related matters to others and focused solely on meat. He’s dedicated his life to the art of whole-hog barbecue and is one of the most respected pitmasters in the country (hence the Chef’s Table feature). His namesake restaurants in Charleston, Birmingham, and Atlanta draw legions of patrons who can’t wait to tuck into his smoky, tangy pork sandwiches. In 2018, Scott was named Best Chef: Southeast by the James Beard Foundation (he’s only the second pitmaster ever to win such an award) and was inducted into the American Royal Barbecue Hall of Fame....

The appointment has since been condemned by the parents of Sandy Hook victims — due to the Georgia Republican pushing the harmful, and false conspiracy theory that the mass shooting of first-grade students was staged. The reprehensible belief is consistent with Greene’s worldview, and it’s one the Sandy Hook parents are not okay with having on a committee that oversees the education of America’s students. “Having a Sandy Hook and Parkland denier on the House Education and Labor Committee is an attack on any and every family whose loved ones were murdered in mass shootings that have now become fodder for hoaxers,” Mark Barden and Nicole Hockley, parents of two of the children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary, said in a statement....

This is all to say that kids are a little bit racist. This is not their fault and their prejudice is, unlike the prejudice of adults, easily overcome. But it remains worrisome to parents who see behavior indicating certain racial and cultural proclivities. In the interest of putting some of those concerns to rest and helping parents identify problematic outliers, here’s a look at the data on kid racism. Infants Prefer Same-Race Faces Although babies don’t seem to care what they’re looking at for the first few weeks of life, studies suggest that children develop preferences for certain faces once they reach three months of age....

My living space, as you might have gleaned, looked like Best Buy threw a kegger and left without cleaning up. Charging cables seemingly reproduced at will, and yet were never there when I needed one. Which is one of the many reasons I love this table. Let’s start with function: you can tell there’s more to this table than meets the eye. It’s clearly a speaker—just look at the fabric surrounding the outside and the power, play, plus, and minus buttons....

Soon-Yi’s attempt to help repair Allen’s reputation — and, by extension, her own — is centered around her origin story as a Korean orphan brought to the states by a movie star. While that scenario may sound like a rags-to-riches story fit for the Hallmark channel, Previn suggests her childhood was more a Lifetime movie nightmare. Previn details all manner of physical and psychological abuse at the hands of Mia Farrow, who raised 14 children including Soon-Yi....

RELATED: Awesome ‘Star Wars’ Porg Toys You Can Buy Right Now Similar to the company’s BB-8 droid, the 7-inch Bluetooth-enabled R2-D2 is either controlled using an iOS or Android app or can be programmed to roam the Millenium Falcon and/or living room on its own. Its movements look damn real, its head spins, and thanks to working LEDs and an integrated speaker (plus access to all the sounds from Episode IV), Artoo acts and beeps like the read droid ⏤ right down to the holographic simulation....

RELATED: The Best Superhero Toys & Gear For Kids Essentially, the third installment in Sphero’s Disney trilogy ⏤ remember it brought Star Wars’ BB-8 into homes a few years back ⏤ Spidey takes the company in a new direction, away from robotics and toward artificial intelligence. Rather than roll around and performing tricks, it’s more of a sedentary storyteller. It stands on the table, answers questions, plays games, and regales your kids with tales of superhero adventures taken from almost 100 comic books....

“I thought I was the only one who did this,” Bruce says. But his friend Mathew Spolin, with whom he worked on an award-winning app for One Medical Group, acknowledged identical behavior when his two kids were infants. Then they heard Judd Apatow say basically the same thing in an interview on NPR and they realized it’s a universal experience. But the marketplace was awash in poorly designed (not to mention ugly) “solutions” that didn’t solve anything....

These bans are particularly dangerous in schools, as vaccines are unavailable for kids under 12, and vaccination rates remain stubbornly low for 13-18 year-olds. Stuck in an untenable situation, school district leaders around the country are instituting face mask mandates in defiance of state law, admirably choosing to protect the lives of their students and employees. The two largest states with two of the most vocal anti-mask governors are Texas and Florida....

Researchers from Trinity College in Dublin gave 40 men either a testosterone injection or a placebo before participating in a series of financial experiments. Participants were asked to split a sum of cash and could accept or decline based on the terms. They could also give financial bonuses or penalties depending on the perceived fairness of the deal. As expected, men who received the testosterone gave out harsher punishments in response to bad deals....

Though the poll is small — just 501 respondents who are full-time employed and have had a child in the last 5 years or plan on having one in the next 5 years — it backs up other research that shows that when it comes to paternity leave, many men don’t take time off or the time off they want to for fear of workplace retribution. A small mountain of studies have shown the effect that masculinized work culture has on working dads, leading them to not take full access to benefits that may be offered to them....

On Friday morning, Carla Haynes was caught on camera at Trousdale County Elementary carrying the child around the corner of her classroom before pushing them onto their back. The pre-K teacher then proceeded to grab the student around the ankles and drag them about 15 feet into her classroom. According to Trousdale County Director of Schools Dr. Clint Satterfield, the school resource officer was watching the footage as it happened via cameras that had been installed at the school less than a year ago....

In an extremely misguided attempt to teach chivalry, female high school students in the Shallowater Independent School District (SISD) in the Lubbock area of Texas were assigned 11 tasks (called “the Rules of Chivalry”) that they would need to perform on “Chivalry Day.” Most of the “Rules for Chivalry” involved girls having to go out of their way to accommodate their male classmates, including being required to “dress in a feminine manner to please the men” and “obey any reasonable request of a male....

In the new film The Batman, Paul Dano plays a deranged new version of the Riddler. This is cool and interesting, and Paul Dano is great. However, I’d like to point out that Paul Dano’s Riddler does not have a theme song written for him by Method Man. This single fact — the idea that Method Man wrote a rap song based on Jim Carrey’s version of the Riddler — should seem shocking, but, for some reason, isn’t....

With so many bourbons, ryes, and other American whiskeys on shelves, the question becomes not ‘what’s great’ but rather ‘what’s best?’. Sorting that out is a never-ending quest. For us, what makes a whiskey truly great is not only unique and expertly woven flavors that play off each other in perfect harmony, but one that is also accessible. That is to say, you have to be able to buy it....

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The Seinfeld collection’s warm jackets and sweatshirts steal the show, bringing together a celebration of Seinfeld, New York City (go Mets!), and the brand’s signature floral prints. The result is the best damn Fall collection a dad could ever hope for. From the collection, we chose our five favorite jackets and sweatshirts — just in time for the cooler weather. The Varsity Jacket The Jacket Hoodie The Sweatshirt The Sherpa Fleece Jacket The Barn Jacket

This feeling, however, is universal. How else do we all learn? But how do you cope with it? Here, more than a dozen dads regaled us with the angriest they’ve ever gotten at their kids. They shared stories of everything from rude phone addicts, to budding social influencers, to poop-stained sofas, all of which will remind you that you’re not alone when it comes to getting fed up and demanding better....