Really?

As always, sorry for the lack of posting--you know the reason. I just gotta say, though, every time I bring up the ol' blog (mainly to go to other blogs since I'm clearly not coming to do a post...), I see our picture at the top and think, "Man, how did I snag that guy? He is so great!" Because let's be honest, he really is. I think it's funny when people tell me how great he is because I think, "Well, obviously! Why do you think I married the guy?" I mean, I guess that some people marry people who are clearly not great. Case in point, there was a man in court today who can't pay his child support to the two mothers of his 5-6 children because he's spending his money on his current family, which presumably means he has a third wife or at least the mother of his children. Really? How do men like this have super-sperm and are somehow able to impregnate a multitude of women? I mean, I understand how human reproduction works, but really?? I mean, honestly, I know so many really great men and women whose genes would be very welcome in the proverbial pool that are able to get very few or even none of their genes out there, while certain people like the aforementioned man are the model of fecundity. What happened to survival of the fittest? Clearly the term originally meant those who are physically the most capable of survival by reproducing the most, but I mean socially, mentally, and morally fit. You know, along the lines of eugenics (mostly kidding here).

And don't act like it's even limited to ridiculous men, this freakish superhuman capacity to spread one's seed at an abnormally high and (literally) insupportable rate. There was a woman today--who happened to be incredibly large, by the way, but that's the subject of a later discussion--who was in front of the court for failure to pay child support, and she said that the reason she couldn't pay it, similar to our male friend above, was because she was using her (new) husband's money to pay for her (new) kids, which she called her 'family,' incidentally, as if the kids from her previous marriage were not her family. I think this was the point when the commissioner said, "You know, we have a saying in the law, 'First families first.'" I don't know how the lady got custody of the kids she has now, I guess just because she birthed them and was still married to their dad, but she clearly was not providing any support to the kids from her previous marriage. And from how many aliases she had, it sounded like she had been remarried numerous times. The whole time I wanted to jump up on my desk and scream at all the asinine people in there about how being able to bear children and be a parent is a blessing and not a burden. Rest assured, I didn't, but I was somewhat vindicated when the commissioner found the woman in contempt and sent her straight to jail for 5 days. The longer I'm around and deal with people, the less I understand the world of fertility and human reproduction. It must be one of the most skewed aspects of human existence. I know, a little dramatic, but really??