Posted in Adoption, Children, International Adoption, The USA from the outside in, World politics, orphans, tagged Africa, AIDS, GW Bush, Mugabe, orphans, PEPFAR, Zimbabwe on February 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve just read the most confounding bit of news I’ve seen in a while, and in a source that usually delivers it straight up, making it even more confusing.
It’s this article in the Washington Post that sent me scurrying all over the Internet in search of corroboration and reason.
The story is about George W. [...]
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According to this article in the Washington Post, not a lot.
It would be nice to claim that comic strips are the last bastion of racism in American media, but that really would be funny. It’s simply one more example of carte blanche being lily white in the realm that exerts influence over the thinking of [...]
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Back in the days when I was still working for Adoption dot com, when a new and enthusiastic editor carved out yet another blog for me after noting my news-houndyishness and created the “News” blog, word came down from On High that I should take on the task of examining Presidential candidates and their positions [...]
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It’s no surprise that the adoption world is easily offended when babies are used as props, since a good part of the debate that fumes mightily has everything to do with children posed as possessions to be wrangled over. But it could be argued that kids are not only “property” in the yours, mine and [...]
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“You don’t know you’ve crossed the line until you get accused of crossing the line.”
That right there is a line crossed, as far as I’m concerned.
It came from the mouth of a guy named Jeffrey T. Schwartz in defense of one Cesar Rodriquez.
Whether Cesar Rodriguez, who is accused of beatings and abusive behavior that killed [...]
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Posted in Adoption, Adoption Advocacy, Adoption News, International Adoption, The USA from the outside in, The United Nations, tagged Kenya, AIDS, Zimbabwe, United Nations, orphans, USAID on January 20, 2008 | 9 Comments »
How many mornings start off with a sense of despair as I open my computer to learn what has happened around the planet as I slept the night away peacefully in the bosom of my beautiful little family? Far too many.
The world is for more people than not a terrible place of unimaginable pain and [...]
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The Guttmacher Institute released its latest report on abortion numbers in the US last week, and because they are down to the lowest rate since 1974, the report is getting press.
The latest figures are from 2005, and the study found a 25 percent drop from an all-time high of 1.6 million in 1990, although still [...]
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Posted in Adoption, Adoption Advocacy, Adoption News, Celebrities, Celebs, Fun, International Adoption, Older Parent Adoption, tagged Steven Wright, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, George Washington Carver, Aristotle on January 3, 2008 | 19 Comments »
“My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.”
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The day the music died may have been in 1959, but twenty-seven years ago today the world lost not only one of the most brilliant and creative musical minds in modern history, but a bit of its soul and a lot of its conscience.
December 8, 1980 was the day Mark Chapman shot and killed John [...]
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I’ve been pounding away on the adoption advocacy front for a very long time, but still raw from the recent flaying I’ve decided to commence a brand new campaign for the betterment of humanity for the time being … today, anyway.
Having left the US in 1993, I’ve missed a lot, and I am nowhere [...]
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