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Gold Digger as a legally established institution

Go google for “sperm donor child support” and read an article about a Nassau County court case from December 2007.

In the late 80s some doctor donates sperm to a colleague with the verbal agreement that he has no rights or responsibilities toward the child.  Ignoring the whole ambiguity of verbal agreements, it’s already established that paternal liability is a responsibility to the child and minors (or even pre-borns) cannot enter a legal contract and as such cannot be bound by a verbal agreement with the mother.  Now that the child is facing college tuition, the mother is seeking child support.

Here’s where it gets bad…

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So I’ll admit it, Bush fooled me again on Scooter Libby.

I mistakenly had thought that George Bush would hold off on springing Scooter Libby. I thought he’d let him spend a token amount of time in prison, maybe saving a pardon for the day after the 2008 election or for the last days of his presidency. But no, he commuted Libby’s sentence before Libby even had to make a Paris Hiltonesque perp ride to jail. Continue reading So I’ll admit it, Bush fooled me again on Scooter Libby….

How crazy do you have to be to go on Food Network

With all these award winning cooks getting challenged on Throwdown with Bobby Flay, how crazy do they have to be when they get approached for their “Food Network Profile”.  Just once I’d like to see Flay show up at a victim’s faux profile and have the victim immediately blurt out “You’re ON FLAY!  You’re GOIN DOWN!” or something.

Don Imus

Someone attempting to spur an ethics debate about ethnic slurs and the measure of reasonable versus unreasonable response to their use - accepted or not - by participating audience and third parties after the fact seemed to me to have missed a key factor.  Firing someone in Don Imus’ position is completely unrelated to how offensive a particular comment was, the audience that was or was not offended by it, the outside parties that heard about it and took offense, or even cultural ambiguities that may surround a given slur that might make it inoffensive language when used in context between cooperating social groups.  Firing is a business decision. Continue reading Don Imus…

TMI about Tony Snow

I really didn’t need to know that much about Tony Snow’s personal health.  While I wish him the best recovery science and nature can provide, the media could have stopped at “cancer returns”.