Archive for June 28, 2011

Pass the Popcorn

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I should admit right up front that I’m a huge fan of Sarah Palin. I’m aroused by her car­niv­o­rous­ness, which is almost equal to my own. And I get really turned on when she talks about dead fish. (Don’t tell any­body, but I have this Palin pinup on the wall of my habi­tat. OOOHHH! Sha-​​ZAM!)

Okay, tak­ing a moment to com­pose myself…

So, imag­ine my excite­ment when I obtained a pirated copy of the new movie, Sarah Palin: The Unde­feated which pre­mieres in Iowa this week. I have it queued up right now, and I’m watch­ing it as soon as I leave here. I know it will be enthralling, and I also hope it helps me to work out the sig­nif­i­cance of the title. Does it mean quit­ting is the same as win­ning? You can’t lose if you don’t run? 2008 never actu­ally happened?

Well, I guess I’ll find out. Right now I have a movie to watch, and I need to whip myself up a nice big bowl of pop­corn shrimp.

Tell Me Who I Am

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An inter­est­ing legal bat­tle is cur­rently under­way in Canada over the rights of chil­dren con­ceived through donated sperm to find out the iden­ti­ties of their fathers.

Olivia Prat­ten, a 28-​​year old woman born in British Colum­bia with the assis­tance of a sperm donor, peti­tioned the court in 2010 to learn who her father was. The BC gov­ern­ment argued against Pratten’s case, say­ing the donor had entered into a con­tract with the fer­til­ity clinic under a guar­an­tee of anonymity and his right to pri­vacy should be upheld. Pratten’s lawyers argued that her right to know her ori­gins should take prece­dence over the pri­vacy rights of the donor because that knowl­edge had a direct bear­ing on her wel­fare, and because an adult can­not legally sign away the rights of a child. (more…)

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