Since I've made such a point of addressing celebrity adoptions, defending the rights of movie stars to be real live people, and reminding anyone I can that there's manipulation in them thar hills of media pap, I thought some reflection... more

Tired of the barrage of bad press and concerned about adoption issues in the big picture, some well-known Hollywood Stars are banding together to take the media by the horns. Headed by internationally adoptive parents Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and Madonna, the Star Power Adoption Network will be launched today in a small ceremony at a New Orleans playground built with seed funds from the organization.

SPAN, as the group will be known, already includes many stars whose families have been touched by adoption. Some, like Meg Ryan, have... more

Believe it or not ... and regular readers will be surprised ... I've come across something that has me stretching out my quads in preparation for jumping on the celeb-adoption-bashing bandwagon. Yep. After all my on-and-oning about press distortion of situations, truth-bending (or ignoring), and sticking noses where they don't belong, I am now ready to believe what I read and voice a very strong opinion on the rumored adoption plans of a known Hollywood-type celeb of some status, albeit minor.

Ready for it?

Here goes ...

... more

Continued from here, where we've been talking about getting a life ...

Formulating any opinion about how far apart Angelina Jolie's children should be spaced, or anything else, is about as much your right as it would be for the guy that pumps your gas to decide he has something to say about whether or not your kids should be baptized based on what sort of car you drive.

This celebrity-life-sucking-vampire-stuff has got to stop! It's not good for you. It's... more

Before this goes much further ... before the fury mounts, before the froth starts appearing at the corners of a greater number of mouths, before ever more hanks of hair are ripped from roots in over-indulgent bouts of angst, before impassioned slinging of mud and insults begins in ernest, before every adoption-related web group and forum becomes awash in righteous indignation ... I would like to point out, yet once again, that media renditions of celebrity adoptions are not necessarily reflections of reality.

This time, of course, the hullabaloo, kafuffle, hoopla, clamor,... more