Category Archives: Adoption

OK this little game of Memes is running around the blogosphere, so I decided to have at it All you do is type your name into in to Google followed by the word “needs.” Since it didn’t work too well with Bastardette, I used Marley. So… Marley needs: (1) a Forever Home (Please contact EAC, Tree of Life, Focus on Adoption (Utah), The Open Door, or your favorite adoption agency for details) (2) needs an owner that can provide a balanced and stable home environment (Please contact A Child’s Waiting for re-homing details). (3) a great home ( Is there a pattern here? Hint: I still prefer The Hamptons despite the current invasion of riff-raffan bad archecture. I will also consider Gstadd.) (4) Vicky’s help (Good help is so hard to find nowadays I’m willing to take on Vicky as my new servant on a trial basis. Does she do weeds and Mai Tais? Every other Sunday off. ) (5) donations (YES!) (6) more leisure time (with the donations I can do it!) (7) to stop working ( ditto! Please states! Unseal all adoption records, repeal baby dumps! I won’t even apply for unemployment. Promise. And send more donations!) (8) Continue Reading →

My latest CatAge Companion newsletter gives the following tips for people who need to find a new home for their kitty: Need to find a new home for your cat? Screen a potential pet parent carefully. Inspect his or her home, verify landlord approval, and get a referral from the adopter’s veterinarian, if possible. Also, help keep your kitty safe from dangers and irresponsible owners by asking about issues like these: • Experience: Has the person looking to adopt ever had a cat? If the cat is no longer in the home, what happened to him? • Safety: Was the cat indoors or outdoors? Ever had a cat declawed? Does the prospective owner live on a busy street or in an area with coyotes or other predators? If they hedge, or your gut feels funny, keep looking. Too bad children can’t be placed under the same conditions in the US. Photo model: Abbie-Gale Sondergaard Greiner

Bastardette has a lot to write about, but I’ll have a busy weekend with Comfest here in Columbus. Although the Bastard Nation tent became just too much of a hassle to do, I work each year at the Columbus Free Press wine tent. In a couple hours I’m off to help set it up. Oppositional researcher and political analyst Chip Berlet will make two appearances at Comfest this Saturday. His schedule, according to the official Comfest program is: 4:25 PM – Bozo State (no subject)6:30 PM – Solar Stage (Progressive Thought and Political Workshop) Here is a partial bio of Berlet from the Public Eye.org Chip Berlet, senior analyst at Political Research Associates (PRA), has spent over twenty–five years studying prejudice, demonization, scapegoating, demagoguery, conspiracism, and authoritarianism. He has investigated far right hate groups, reactionary backlash movements, theocratic fundamentalism, civil liberties violations, police misconduct, government and private surveillance abuse, and other anti-democratic phenomena. He is a lively speaker defending democracy and diversity. Berlet is co–author, with Matthew N. Lyons, of Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort, (Guilford Press, 2000), which received a Gustavus Myers Center Award for outstanding scholarship on the subject of human rights and intolerance in Continue Reading →

A year ago iBastard wrote a wonderful blog–Introducing the Adoption Apparel Translator–with illustrations. iBastard took to task those adoptive parents with their odd motives who dress their little adoptees, too young to voice their personal opinion about the whole thing, in adopta-tees: “I Grew in Mommy’s Heart” and “Mommy’s Lil’ Guatling.” (I know what you’re thinking, but …no, these are real!) My personal fav is “Special Delivery from Guatemala,” spun out of the iBastard Translator as, “No, Mommy Did Not Fuck a Mexican.” Since then, the child saving sub-industry has expanded to market new and exciting promotional material for entitled braggards. This bib,* for example, courtesy of Bubblegum Bibs, ought to be next year’s best seller due to the coming influx of Ethiopian “orphans” in the wake of the Guatemalan unpleasantness. (China is also available) TRANSLATION: Your mother didn’t want you. Oh, and by the way, your birth country sucks. For a mere $15.00 you can send a message to your little international adoptee now that will warp him or her forever. *NOTE TO ANGELINA JOLIE: Have nanny stock up!

Spread the word!

For some reason phone and fax numbers don’t show up on anything I do web-based without a lot of effort. All of the committee numbers, however, are on the BEA MySpace page. Look at the blog. I think you can access that area without having a MySpace account. If anybody can explain the mysterious workings of the ‘net to me, please feel free. I apologize for the inconvenience.

Just as we’re recovering from the horror of The Silence of the French Fries on YouTube, Origins-USA puts up a new video: Pregnant? Thinking of Placing Your Baby? Now the video is a bit too essentialist for my taste. But a 4-minute video presenting the hazards of adoption to women and their children is a positive small step in debunking all the adoption-is God’s-gift industry agitprop burrowed in YouTube. The video treats women as intelligent, thoughtful human beings who can make decisions on their own without the mediation of the professional adoption class. It’s nice to see OUSA take a swing, even ever so gentle, at NCFA’s body slamming Birth Mother,Good Mother propaganda campaign. Anyway, the video was up only a few hours when somebody calling himself “badkjackcutter” (as in Jack Elam) decided to pipe up. Calling the video poster” hateful,” BJC describes himself as “an adoptee, a birth father, a father, an adoptive father, and a nationally recognized expert on adoption. But I am not who you probably think I am.” Well, gee, I don’t know who BJC probably is ( I am pretty sure I know who he’s probably not– and Bill is no longer with us!), but Continue Reading →

Sometimes a story doesn’t need a comment. Here’s one of them. Survey: Fla. Teens Believe Drinking Bleach Will Prevent HIVSome Teens Also Believe Mountain Dew Will Stop PregnancyPOSTED: 1:54 pm EDT April 2, 2008UPDATED: 4:34 pm EDT April 2, 2008 ORLANDO, Fla. — A recent survey that found some Florida teens believe drinking a cap of bleach will prevent HIV and a shot of Mountain Dew will stop pregnancy has prompted lawmakers to push for an overhaul of sex education in the state. The survey showed that Florida teens also believe that smoking marijuana will prevent a person from getting pregnant. State lawmakers said the myths are spreading because of Florida’s abstinence-only sex education, Local 6 reported. They are proposing a bill that would require a more comprehensive approach, the report said. It would still require teaching abstinence but students would also learn about condoms and other methods of birth control and disease prevention. The bill just passed its first vote in a committee, Local 6 reported.