So CBS News runs this AP story with a headline that makes you read it more than once. "Bridge Collapse Widow Adopts Haitian Twins." And, yeah, yeah, you're already like, come on! And sure enough, yes, Minnesotan Betsy Sathers lost her husband of ten months, Scott, when the Minneapolis freeway bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River in 2007. And she thought she was pregnant at the time, but then her sorrow was compounded when she found out she was not. She didn't know if she ever wanted to get married again, but she knew she wanted to be a mother. So she started the process to adopt a child from Haiti last year. In August, she learned she'd been assigned boy-girl twins. She made three trips to Port-Au-Prince to visit them as paperwork went through, the last one on January 1. Eleven days, later, when the earthquake hit, she didn't know whether or not they survived. They did, thank God, and were flown to Florida, where Sathers picked up the 22nd. "I don't think I rescued them," Sathers said of her twin two-year-olds, Ross and Alyse. "I feel like if anything, they've rescued me." Come on!
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
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Haiti? More like LOVEY!
Ole Miss Adds Lovable Haitian Lineman to 2016 Recruiting Class
Dave, Choire asked you to write this because Balk can't stop sobbing, right?
That sure is a hell of a lot better than when Couric ASKED Drew Brees, pre-super bowl, "Did you save New Orleans or did New Orleans save you?"
Oh BARF.
But it's not as good as when Perry White asked Lois Lane, "Did you save Superman or did Superman save you?" after the events of Superman Returns, because really, it's kind of like, well, both!
Get back to me when they adopt that dog that was stuck on the iceberg.
It's getting awfully difficult to maintain my heartless cynical demeanor around here.
But are they good enough to play in the NFL?
Check back here in 20 years.
Did the author just admit to having seen The Blind Side?
No! God forbid! It's in the trailer. (Which, excuse me, I think I have something in my eye.)
Worse, he admitted to reading Michael Lewis.
I'm going to start adopting suburban white women, because the lesson in all of this is that clearly they need saving more than anyone else.
This is just exactly how I feel about those hundreds of twist ties I've saved in the kitchen drawer.
So I'm guessing "earthquake orphans" is going to be Haiti's number one export category for 2010.
Well, I guess he did say it was "difficult" to make fun of, not impossible. But I did like it better when you used the Ronbo account.