giggle
i didn’t write this, but i wish i had…
“When I heard that John McCain’s running mate had children named Track, Willow, Bristol, Piper, and Trig, I was floored.
“A lot of Americans, myself included, want to believe this is still the country we grew up in, a country where no one dreamed of giving their children names like Brooklyn or Rhiannon or Darcy.
“We want to believe we are still living in a country where naming children is a cultural self-preservation tactic, a means of maintaining an institutional memory of the ethnic and religious groups from which the newborn has sprung, a way of maintaining a link with a heroic past rather than a cute or ironic future.
“But that country no longer exists. American children are no longer named after prophets, warriors, healers, or cultural titans; they are named after Welsh fairies, characters in science-fiction movies, the outer boroughs of New York, and trees.”
– Joe Queenan in the Los Angeles Times
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It gets worse. Sooooo much worse.
I just found out what Trig Palin’s middle name is. It’s Van. Yeah as in VAN PALIN. It was reportedly done on purpose as Sarah Palin is a huge Van Halen fan.
Yeah.
I still like her but if we were voting based on baby naming prowess I couldn’t in good conscience give my vote to her.
do you think IQ is linked to baby naming capabilities? If so, should i be worried?