You Are So Grounded, Mister

How often it is that the story of a father and son is not completely told. Today's example comes from Mumbai, where an Emirates Air flight was grounded when Dubai-bound, alleged terrorist Shahbaz Khan and his wife Munira ended up just being bound up.

An anonymous call was credited with "foiling" Khan's plan. Suspicion points to son, Arif Kahn, as the likely tipster as he was the one who last year tried ratting out his father and his "criminal background" when the old man ran for the Assembly.

Did we mention father and son are fighting over real estate and the son had been locked up for stealing from their tenant? As mentioned above, there's a bit more for this family saga than has met the eye.

School Daze

I had a dream.

I dreamed of a day when a man could head the PTA. When a million men would be walk their children to school. I dreamed that moms would step aside and welcome, if not actively encourage dads to relish time in their childrens' schools.

And in my dream boys stopped being boys when they got to be dads. And never in my dream did two dads duke it out in on school grounds, killing one, to settle the fight begun by their sons the week before.

** New Dream: you pull the man out of the boy and most of the boy out of the man. **