Brangelina Bunkum

   I was away from the world for a while, so to speak, while we had the funeral for my father. I came back to it to find the media circus over the "Brangelina baby" in full swing. After fighting the urge to puke over it all, I did a search for synonyms for 'idiocy' and found over 100 of them. That might be just a few more than you'd want to read here, but every single one of them fits the ridiculous situation. It's all bullshit.
   If the baby is healthy, that's a wonderful thing, but stop the carrying on, for christ sake. It is just another baby, after all, and no more deserving of all the hype than the babies born to poverty today in Mumbai, or anywhere else, for that matter. Until each one of those other little ones gets a chance at the same kind of life as Jolie's baby will have simply by accident of birth, spare us the sappy details about this incredibly pampered and unjustly favoured couple and their offspring.