On Grammy night, the news was released that Rihanna and Chris Brown, both scheduled to perform, would be cancelling their performances due to a “personal incident;” that “personal incident, as we now know, turned out to be a domestic violence incident, in which Chris Brown has been accused of beating up Rihanna, his girlfriend. It [...]

I’ve made an important decision in my life: I’m going to just stop assuming, altogether, that I’ve heard everything. That way, whenever something jaw-dropping happens, I won’t be shocked or totally appalled. In the case of Alfie Patten, our 13-year-old baby daddy in England, every time I think I’ve heard it all, I find out [...]

Just when I was starting to think that the Nadya Suleman octuplets story was going to be the strangest baby story we’d hear for a while, The Sun (UK) broke the story today of new father Alfie Patten. Ordinarily, fathers aren’t the centre of baby stories (sorry, but the attention is usually on mom!) but [...]