In the mood to read about something offensive? If so, I can recommend the blog I just posted over on the Adoption News which might have you spitting nails at UNICEF ... again.

If giant organizations with huge PR budgets and teflon coating don't set off a full round of tintinnabulation for you today, perhaps you will be more comfortable with a bit of pique for the one lone person who wrote this little piece of nincompoopiness. Titled "Foreign orphans better than ours", the writer manages to dredge up so many pin-headed statements that it's almost unbelievable that anyone could be so stupid ... but, of course, being adoptive parents, we're far too familiar with other peoples' ignorance on topics relating to children, and their willingness to broadcast rudely all aspects of said ignorance, to cling to any fantasy of a world where people educate themselves on issues as important as the inheritors of our planet.

In addition to some really weird spacing that has me wanting to introduce the concept of the paragraph ... really, honesty, every sentence does not need a new line double spaced from its neighbors ... there's a jerkiness to the thought flow, and I mean that with most every possible definition of the word 'jerk' in mind. (Keeping in mind, of course, that accepted blog style does suggest frequent breaks and stand-alone sentences, so I'm not exactly practicing what I preach on this one.)

From Oprah to Angelina to Ellen DeGeneres's dog, it's kitchen sink time on the orphan front with little regard to connecting the dots and an apparent wish to offend as wide an audience as possible.

But why do we have to bribe someone to take care of American kids when folks with millions are willing to pay big money for foreign children?

And why isn't this part of the great immigration debate?

I mean, if it's wrong for people to cross our borders to take our jobs, shouldn't it be wrong for our people to cross our borders to buy someone else's children?

Buy American children first.

Okay, maybe this is satire and I'm taking it too seriously .... please! ... but do any of us doubt this stinky thinking exists?

Since this is out and about in the world today, thanks to the guy with the bad, rude 'tude, perhaps we should spend a minute thinking about ways to address this ignorance when we meet it face-to-face.

The questions often start with the "Why did you go all the way to ______ (Fill in the blank with your child's birth country), when there are so many American kids that need homes? (To be honest, I don't deal with this because I don't live in America, but I am imaginative enough to conjure a version of myself in that position and come up with what I could hear myself saying.)

Depending on the specific circumstance, your personality and how close you are to blowing up over the rest of the stresses in your day, you could trot out one or more of the following retorts:

• What's it to ya, Bozo?

• Is there something in my face that makes you think I'll feel obliged to answer such a personal question?

• Before going any further, could I please introduce you to my visible, aware and hearing child? Child, this is an adult who has yet to learn where his/her world leaves off and other peoples' worlds begin. Adult, this is good-bye.

• I'm sorry, but I wasn't aware that American children are more deserving of families than those in other countries.

• And how many children have YOU adopted from foster care ... ?

Okay, there are kinder, gentler responses, but given the day I've been having my imagination is stopping just short of coming up with any of those.

Please feel free to contribute any and all you might have.

I need to stop reading so much of the news ...