It's Tough To Be A Dad!
WASHINGTON — In The Dadly Virtues: Adventures From the Worst Job You'll Ever Love, a collection of opinion writers and humorists use their day job (writing) to reminisce about their most important job (being a dad).
"The primary effect of children," the book's editor, Jonathan Last, explains in the introduction, "is that they take things from you.
"It begins with sleep, time, and dignity and then expands over the years to include sanity, serenity and a great deal of money."
The book has 17 "dad authors" ("author dads"?). Besides Last, senior writer at The Weekly Standard, they include satirist P.J. O'Rourke, David Burge (best known as @IowaHawkBlog to his over 100,000 twitter followers), Daily Caller editor and Fox News host Tucker Carlson, National Review Senior Editor Jonah Goldberg, Hollywood writer Rob Long (whose credits include the TV show "Cheers"), actor and comedian Larry Miller, and four of Last's Weekly Standard colleagues — Christopher Caldwell, Andrew Ferguson, Stephen Hayes and Matt Labash.
The book is like a Swiss Army knife, Last explains, "part instructional guide, part meditation, part war journal."
