Author and blogger Neal Pollack’s irreverent site AlternaDad has never failed to crack me up. He’s now editing/publishing a new online parenting magazine Offsprung which features the work of 12 bloggers (see below) with more on the way. Wry, offbeat and definitely left-leaning. Following is an excerpt from their introduction:”A new generation of parents is currently reinventing the very notion of parenthood, and, for that matter, of generations. Never before have human beings reproduced so interestingly, with such skepticism, and with such clever nicknames for their progeny. This important sociological development has only thus far been the subject of about 500 articles in the New York Times, and many far less important media outlets. That’s why we, a group of sexy and relatively clever parents, decided to start Offsprung Media.Even though we’ve only met briefly on the Internet and through a series of semi-annoying conference calls, we know that we’re the right people for the job. We hope you join us on this magical voyage as we express how we FEEL about being parents, and about how all other parents who express themselves about being parents are total phony liars. Ladies and Gentlemen, we give you Offsprung, an entirely craft-free online parenting magazine community for the modern age.

We feature the sharpest, funniest writers on the Internet, each one eviscerating, or at least challenging, a different excess of that culture. Here are some of them now:

Matthew Tobey brings us The Cleaver, the final word on the absurd and semi-evil world of celebrity parenting hype.

Christopher Monks has created Dadsmacker, the first-ever blog totally devoted to taking on the pretensions of “hipster” parenting, a ridiculous movement that no one on this site has been involved with in the slightest.

Amanda Marcotte, the scourge of Catholicism, brings you Unsprung, which should make Christian right “pro-family” moralists shake in their hypocrisy suits.

Amy Davis keeps the shark from jumping on Huxtabled, serving as our primary tastemaker in the world of video-based children’s entertainment.

Leigh Anne Wilson, operator of the Honeysuckle Shop, a well-regarded online sex-toys establishment, writes all about matters orgasmic in Lock The Bedroom Door.

Dara Grumdahl, a James Beard award-winning food writer, puts the American diet to shame with Defamisher.

Alternadad Neal Pollack will dispense parenting advice with the help of his trusty Silver Surfer.

And they are just the tip of a thick, brilliant iceberg of talent. Over the next few weeks, Offsprung will launch nearly 20 blogs, all of them hilarious and incisive. And we’ll be bringing you so many other features. You’re not going to believe what hit you, people. Soon, it will be hard to imagine your lives without Offsprung.”

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