Posts by Greg 7

Lancet: Hordes of patio-heater babies will doom planet

@Tim Nevins

"I wonder if the US would like to pave the way by leading by example?"

Some of us are trying, pal. The wife and I are planning one more rugrat, for an even two, and stopping there. Unfortunately, that's outweighed by the fanatical 13-child uber-religious families. And every time someone mentions population control, especially among the poor and uneducated, we're shouted down with, "EUGENICS! NAZZZZZZZZIIIIIISSSS! REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS!!!"

At least we still have our guns so that the poor can take care of their overpopulation problems efficiently. "Lemme get this straight, criminal trash are shooting other criminal trash in a moronic attempt to control their garbage-strewn "territory" and out of an imaginary sense of "pride"? Where's the problem?"

Why teachers fear Callum, Chelsea, Connor and Crystal

Damn it

We named my firstborn Callum. But we're here in the States, and had no idea it was such a popular name in the UK. NOBODY over here had ever heard it, nor can they pronounce it half the time( KAY-lum? Call 'em? Caleb? Coltan? (I know some very slow-witted people))

He's 2 months from being 3 years old, very clever, and real little shit. He uses the prongs to pry the electrical socket cap off, so he can plug things in. He's been pushing a stool/chair around and using it to climb since he was barely walking. The little monkey's been using tools to accomplish his goals since before he could talk.

So maybe there is something more to it than the Pygmalion effect.

Disney punts hetero luuurv to wide-eyed kiddies

Yeah, and?

Heterosexuality IS the norm, art reflects life, etc. This study was yet another waste of grant money in an attempt to gather attention. Not that I'd mind a gay character in a Disney flick, or any other movie, but I'm sure there'd be such an outcry from moronic "Think of Children" Fundamentalists, Disney would never risk it. Besides, we already had Bert and Ernie as the first gay couple on TV.

I think the real tragic thing about Disney movies is that they depict love in such a way that they give little girls unrealistic expectations about love and marriage. Let's have a 'Cinderella II' with a balding, beer-gutted Prince Charming as the perpetually drunk husband, and a thunder-thighed Cinderella as the nagging bitch, in the quest to set child support payment and resolve visitation rights. Let's have 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Who's the Father?"

And for Christ's sake Disney, stop with the straight-to-video sequels: 'The Lion King XIV: Simba's Prostate Exam', 'Beauty and the Beast VII: Belle Finds a Lump', etc.