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October 21, 2005
True Colors
Whatever else one can say about the Duggars having their 16th child, it sure has shown some people's true colors. (link via The Corner)
It's wrong to be this judgmental. Wrong to suggest that it is exactly this kind of weird pathological protofamily breeding-happy gluttony that's making the world groan and cry and recoil, contributing to vicious overpopulation rates and unrepentant economic strain and a bitter moral warpage resulting from a massive viral outbreak of homophobic neo-Christians across our troubled and Bush-ravaged land. Or is it?
Apparently not.
Let us be clear: I don't care what sort of God you believe in, it's a safe bet that hysterical breeding does not top her list of desirables. God does not want more children per acre than there are ants or mice or garter snakes or repressed pedophilic priests. We already have three billion humans on the planet who subsist on less than two dollars a day. Every other child in the world (one billion of them) lives in abject poverty. We are burning through the planet's resources faster than a Republican can eat an endangered caribou stew. Note to Michelle Duggar: If God wanted you to have a massive pile of children, she'd have given your uterus a hydraulic pump and a revolving door. Stop it now.
Mmmmm, endangered caribou stew. It's what's for dinner! Obviously he is unfamiliar with that whole 'go forth and multiply' thing. Or with the biological fact that women are configured to have a kid every year or two. To borrow the old Microsoft slogan, 'It's a feature, not a bug!'
And so what if the Duggars choose to have a whole truckload of kids? What about that whole 'right to choose' thing liberals are always preaching? Or does that only apply to killing babies, not having them?
As long as they can afford to raise them, I don't see what the big deal is. Of course, I come from a true 'live & let live' culture in which, until recently, large families were the norm....and in which children are still valued. And unlike this writer, I'm not afraid they're going to take over the world.
Where is, in other words, the funky tattooed intellectual poetess who, along with her genius anarchist husband, is popping out 16 funky progressive intellectually curious fashion-forward pagan offspring to answer the Duggar's squad of über-white future Wal-Mart shoppers? Where is the liberal, spiritualized, pro-sex flip side? Verily I say unto thee, it ain't lookin' good.
No, because Sunshine Rainbow is too focused on exploring her inner child to be bothered with having one. And that my friend, ain't nothing but the truth. I mean, can you imagine the logistics of taking 16 kids to a 'Save the Endangered Spotted Possum' rally?
Why it would take days just to make enough signs for them to carry.
Posted by Rita at October 21, 2005 05:21 AM
Comments
Somehow I knew before I clicked that it would be Morford.
I wonder how I knew.
Posted by: Craig at October 21, 2005 07:21 AM
If the Duggars were a black family, that column would never, ever have been written.
Posted by: Jim - PRS at October 21, 2005 12:58 PM
I'm not familiar with him, Craig. Is he always this goofy?
No kidding Jim. Or any of the other rude, ignorant comments I've seen.
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at October 21, 2005 01:18 PM
This is actually about average for Morford, who's been vending 9-volt moonbattery for the San Francisco Comical for ages now.
Posted by: CGHill at October 21, 2005 03:48 PM
That's why I didn't recognize the name. I never read the SFC. He doesn't make me want to start either.
Posted by: Rita at October 22, 2005 06:47 AM
Chas is right. Morford's stuff is typically vile and hateful. I never typically wish bad things on people, but for him, I would make an exception.
Posted by: Craig at October 22, 2005 07:53 AM
I find it mildly ironic that the ONLY reason he exists is because of the "Live and let live" culture that has existed in the past.
On another note, am I the only one that finds that he references the mind of GOD as particularly unsavoury?
And finally, to answer his rehetorical question of "Where is the liberal, spiritualized, pro-sex flip side?"; they are, of course, aborting said offspring.
Posted by: Bill at October 22, 2005 09:29 AM
Endagered spotted possum?
Posted by: Zendo Deb at October 22, 2005 09:55 AM
Sure Deb. In fact, Sassy caught one yesterday morning. They're about as 'endangered' as the caribou he mentioned.
Yep, Bill you are correct. And another thing. Just because conservatives think one should be responsible about sex and its consequences doesn't mean we're anti-sex. Right?
Posted by: Rita at October 22, 2005 10:07 AM
Oh, and our live & let live culture is why we now have so many damn hippies living here.
Posted by: Rita at October 22, 2005 10:13 AM
You have to admit he,(ie: they socialists/communists),get alot mileage from their coin. More than you do, anyway. The simple truth is that in the theatre of ideas, theirs have been found wanting. Had he made the effort to have and raise children, (including the approximately 1.3 million aborted a annually), he probably wouldn't be feeling so insignificant right now. As you probably know successful parenting requires time, money, energy, love and a personal life that is not centered on one's self. Is it possible thats why he is bitter?
I guess that would depend on your definition of sex is ...is.
One last question. Has anyone told GOD he is female? Inquiring minds want to know and all.
Posted by: Bill at October 22, 2005 11:38 AM
Beats me. It takes a certain amount of hubris, I think, to presume one knows much about God. God is. Are we capable of understanding anything more? I don't think we are.
BTW, loved the photos. He's such a handsome young lad.
Posted by: Rita at October 22, 2005 03:57 PM