Bastardette’s 7th Anniversary: The more things change the more they stay the same
Tuesday marked the 7th anniversary of the Daily Bastardette. To be honest, I’m surprised. I started Bastardette as a little experiment not expecting her to go very far. In fact, the big reason I started her was that a techie bastard, whose name escapes me now, suggested I blog since webpages were”obsolete” and blogs were “the way to go.” I was also curious to see if anyone would read her. I was astounded when I had 100 hits. As of this writing, I’ve had almost 350,000 hits. I’m still astounded. One of my first blogs, Abandoning your Baby: It’s such a simple thing to do, was about California’s godfather of baby dumping., LA County Supervisor, Don Knabe. Supervisor Knabe had complained to the press that not enough mothers were anonymously dropping off newborns at their neighborhood fire stations.. “It;’s such a simple thing to do,” he bemoaned. Nothing has changed. The other day .Missouri politicians, complained that something had to be done to save more ‘newborns” (the state’s “safe haven law” has two tiers so babies up to a year old can be dumped with different parental “legal defenses.”) The solution to this dire non-problem, according to them and their Continue Reading →