Posted in Adoption, Fun, WTF?, tagged Bugs Bunny, Harry Potter, military, science, Star Trek on February 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
No, I’m not harkening back to the flap last year that had tacky t-shirts emblazoned with the what was either cleverly hip or cynically horrid “Adoption: the New Black”, but rather the REAL New Black, which is black.
Yep. Black: The New Black.
Blacker than black, this new black is amazingly cool to a science geek wannabe [...]
Posted in Fun, Island life, Seychelles, WTF?, tagged Bin Laden, Bush, coco de mer, eBay on February 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
For a couple of reasons … 1) I’m old and becoming ever more resistant to new ways of doing things, and 2) I live on a tiny rock in the middle of nowhere … I have long managed to ignore a global phenomenon that has become part of the daily grist for the consumer mill [...]
Posted in Cambodia, Children, International Adoption, WTF? on February 15, 2008 | 7 Comments »
There is, reportedly, a new a popular new pastime for 18- to 20-year-old northern European men that is catching on and has many deciding to see more of the world, unfortunately; they are Asia’s new pedophiles.
There is a virtual invasion by northern European men aged 18 to 20 whose arrival has expanded the pedophilia [...]
Posted in England, International Adoption, WTF?, World politics, tagged 2008 Olympics, British football, Nazis, Steven Speilberg on February 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
After posting yesterday on Chinese-made choking hazards in the shape of toys in really, really, really bad taste, this story out of Britain provides another.
British Olympic chiefs are to force athletes to sign a contract promising not to speak out about China’s appalling human rights record – or face being banned from travelling to Beijing.
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Posted in Adoption, Island life, Seychelles, WTF?, tagged 9/11, Bin Laden, Chinese toys, George W. Bush on February 12, 2008 | 11 Comments »
>The Internet was out all day today, so I’m far behind on way too much work and playing catch-up (ketchup?) tonight.
Had a meeting in town today … so at least had something constructive to do with the time I would have been working … and also needed to do some shopping, as a friend’s little [...]
Posted in Adoption, Adoption Advocacy, Cambodia, Entitled to opinions, Family, International Adoption, NaBloPoMo, WTF?, Writing for a living, tagged , abuse, Adoption.com on November 30, 2007 | 55 Comments »
Funny how things work out. At the beginning of this month when I started the whole NaBloPoMo thing, I would not have suspected November would end up with an obscenity of the XXX variety, but it has.
It seems that budget constraints and an abrupt shift in editorial policy, or something, has prompted Adoption.com, one of [...]
Posted in American thoughts, Celebrities, WTF?, Younger men, tagged , 9/11, Ahmadinejad, facial hair, Freddy Mercury, Gay, Holocaust, Huffington Post, Iran on September 25, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I like the Huff Post and go there a lot to check out the latest, almost never failing to find something that educates or amuses.
Because of where I live, however, I don’t get to take full advantage of the cool features today’s news providers offer like on-demand video. No, I just get the ‘quick [...]
Posted in Fun, WTF? on August 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I apologize in advance for this post, but I just can’t help myself … this cracks me up, and I MUST share.
First, for attribution, the link.
Now, the copy:
A dwarf performer at the Edinburgh fringe festival had to be rushed to hospital after his penis got stuck to a vacuum cleaner during an act that went [...]
Posted in Adoption, Adoption Advocacy, WTF? on August 1, 2007 | 22 Comments »
I wrote about Jessica DelBalzo … sorry, but that name makes me chuckle every time I write it … today on the Adoption News Blog, but I’m still so amused/annoyed that I feel the need to keep snickering at this moronic twit, so I’m doing a bit more of it here.
I’d written about her before, [...]
Posted in Adoption, Older women, On getting older, WTF?, Writing for a living, Younger men on July 11, 2007 | 3 Comments »
If you don’t already know this, I’ll share that one of the pro blogs I write is on the topic of adopting as an older parent.
Since I’m about to turn fifty-six and have a 4.75-year-old and a 2-year-old, I’m qualified to write about being a geezer mom. I try very hard not to make that [...]
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