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WHERE IS FRANKIE YANKOVIC NOW THAT WE NEED HIM?: BASTARDS HAVE STANDARDS

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Those of us of a certain age from the Cleveland area will remember the Frankie Yankovic hit Too Fat Polka. I was reminded of that song when I read the responses to my recent “Say It Ain’t So, Joe” blog which discussed conservative writer Joe Sobran’s suggestion that George W Bush should have been put up for adoption. Bastardette sent the link off to Sobran who wrote back: “You never know whom you’re going to offend these days!” But don’t blame Joe! Like the rest of the country, he’s been indoctrinated with the belief that adoptees are mindless little flits with a high tolerance for bullshit–happy to settle for dog scraps as long as we’re watered and papered occasionally. Though the comments are hardly a scientific survey, it is clear that our Dear Leader would not be welcomed with open arms if he were to cross the border–legally or not– into AdoptionLand, not to mention Bastard Nation. More like pikes and sticks. It appears sadly, from the picture on the left that Little Georgie is somebody only a Dick Cheney could adopt. ******** I’m very far behind in blogging. As usual, I’ve got some half-baked blogs in the oven (which Continue Reading →

SAY IT AIN’T SO! JOE SOBRAN SUGGESTS GEORGE W. BUSH SHOULD HAVE BEEN ADOPTED

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Adopted people are accused of many things: bed wetting, fire setting, kleptomania, lying, home wrecking, mother hating, and serial killing (WMD: ax). I mean, who else would do these things? Certainly not legos reared in white picket pens, weaned on strip malls and fern bars, with two happy church-going hets nannying them from cradle to grad school. And to be honest, being adopted isn’t all that bad. It gives us adoptees something to blame all our problems on. But even adoptees set limits on acceptable behavior. Recently, dredging up the old nature or nurture argument, former National Review editor Joe Sobran. suggested the unsuggestable: George W. Bush should have been put up for adoption at birth. Saturday’s Lew Rockwell.com published Sobran’s July 9 Liberty Watch column, Lessons of History (also found on his webpage, The Reactionary Utopian.) Sobran wrote: What must the old man [George Herbert Walker Bush] feel as he sees his family name become accursed of all nations? Being a parent can be tough. Kids can give you unpleasant surprises. Usually, though, these can be coped with. If your son gets drunk and totals your new stretch limousine, well, you’re not happy, but it’s not going into the Continue Reading →