Last-minute, pre-vacation grabbag today. Rebel Mom and I are leaving for a kidless vacation tomorrow, so Rebel Dad will go stagnant for the rest of this week and most of next week. Feel free to carry your discussions into the comments area if you're really dying for at-home news, or check out Being Daddy, who posts an impressive amount ...

While we're talking about Being Daddy, he here examined the souped-up stroller phenomenon that the fashion gurus at the New York Times wrote about earlier this week. Finally, a baby trend in which dads are targeted! (Of course, we're being played as gadget-obsessed nutcases, but I'll take what we can get.)

Along the same lines, I've been beem meaning to make a quick post about the ad campaign for the new Nissan Quest. The tag line is "Moms have changed." Here's the weird thing: the Quest is the designer stroller of the minivan world. It sounds like a minivan built by frat boys. It's loaded with gadgets. Five sunroofs. It has a 240-hp engine, for Pete's sake. And yet the ad campaign aggressively directed solely at women? Odd, no?

Finally, Al's Morning Meeting (a story resource for reporters run out of the journalistic think tank at the Poynter Institute) has challenged his reporting readers to explain the male teacher gap. I'll keep an eye out to see if anyone takes the bait.