when the status quo frustrates.

Dear Madonna and Brangelina,

Third World countries are not animal shelters.

With love,

McBoing

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6 Responses to “Dear Madonna and Brangelina,”

  1. Marked Hoosier says:
    October 17, 2006 at 9:22 pm

    But they are so cute!

    /bad joke

  2. belledame222 says:
    October 17, 2006 at 9:57 pm

    sigh

  3. AradhanaDevindra says:
    October 18, 2006 at 10:20 am

    Wow, good post. I think there’s also the factor that by adopting a child who’s parents are eternally indebted to you because you are a great white person who’s ‘rescued’ their child, they won’t raise a ruckus with claims to the child later on. Whereas, ‘crack-addicted’ US babie’s mothers might want their baby back or worse demand oodles of money later on.

  4. Dutchy says:
    October 18, 2006 at 3:25 pm

    Isn’t it a bad bad thing when children are used as a “have to have” item? Really…if you have all that money and you really truly want to make a difference, you would not just BUY one child, you would start a home for as many children as possible. Or else just admit that you went to a country, picked out a baby that didn’t clash with your interior and bought it. That’s okay to….NOT.

    Of course this is in no way a criticism to adoption or people who adopt. Just to rich dorks who think that kids are toys.

  5. Fat Doug Lover says:
    October 18, 2006 at 4:39 pm

    sigh

    It reminds me of sitting in a movie theater in Berkeley with Becky and Ron and Joe watching O Brother Where Art Thou, and having a handful of the audience members applaud when the Cyclops Klan character played by John Goodman got spanked by the burning cross. Because, you know, it’s possible that the rest of the audience in Berkeley might actually have felt support for the Klansmen in the movie, and only by the brave action of booing Klansmen in a dark movie house in Berkeley, California could those folks make sure that their stalwart opposition to cartoon evil was made known in every possible venue.

  6. junk science says:
    October 18, 2006 at 9:58 pm

    If Madonna really wanted to be a hero, she’d adopt a thirteen-year-old boy who’s been arrested six times and lived in fourteen foster homes since he was six. You know, the kind of kid who has absolutely zero chance of ever having a home.

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