This is the handiwork of Florida businessman Mike Meehan, and he’s paid to have three of them raised around Orlando. According to Meehan, who says it’s important for voters to remember to focus on the war, he is a proud Republican and “a man of God.”

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And it's not watching the newest reality show to destroy our youth, Queen Bees. Oh, who am I kidding? I'll be watching. But only for work-related purposes. I recently caught the promo for the show — which aims to make mean girls nice — and lasted about two seconds without having the urge to shoot my television. What could be so appalling that even a reality TV junkie was forced to gasp in digust? It was this lovely gem from one of the contestants: "I do have ugly friends. But I don’t go out with them at night.”

Seriously, where do they find these people? And I don't care how pretty they become on the inside — I can think of a million people off the top of my head that deserve $25,000 more than these girls.

Evidently movies like Juno are ruining our youth, because the new trend is getting preggers at a young age. Case in point: A group of 17 girls at a Massachusetts high school are with child, and they are wayyyy too enthused about it.

All it took was a few simple questions before nearly half the expecting students, none older than 16, confessed to making a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together. Then the story got worse. 'We found out one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless guy,' the principal says, shaking his head.

Naturally, parents are complaining about the new pregnancy trend — including films like Knocked Up and Jamie Lynn Spears' glamorous OK! exclusive in which she revealed she was expecting — but it's never that easy.

A classmate who gave birth her freshman year said many of the girls would approach her and talk about how lucky she was to have a baby: "They're so excited to finally have someone to love them unconditionally. I try to explain it's hard to feel loved when an infant is screaming to be fed at 3 a.m."

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From Salon:

As the latest in a long tradition of Brits working in a black American idiom, Winehouse recognizes that otherness is part and parcel of the blues, but that her Jewishness is a liability — play it up too much and you're perceived as an oddity, like Jewish reggae rapper Matisyahu. So, as Shel Silverstein once asked of an aspiring bluesman, "What do you do if you're young and white and Jewish … and the only levee you know is the Levy who lives on the block?"

Winehouse answers that question by digging deep for scraps of authenticity…she acts out and "keeps it real" by defending her drug and alcohol addictions, and by standing by her jailed ne'er-do-well husband. The whole package smells like a bizarre simulation of a familiar black stereotype.

Well, we guess that's one theory.

Then again, isn't assuming that a sad junkie is playing a "familiar black stereotype" (instead of, y'know, actually being an addicted loser) much more racist than anything Amy Winehouse has ever done?