Random Links

OK, these feel like REALLY random links, but really interesting and worth sharing, I think!

Third graders asked "What is an Illegal Alien?" A school assignment that asks third graders this multiple-choice question:

What does the U.S. do with illegal aliens?


A. The U.S. puts them to work in the army.

B. The U.S. shoots them into outer space.

C. The U.S. puts them to death.

D. The U.S. sends them back where they came from.

A crying shame:  China's lost baby girls, an interview with Xinran about her book, Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother, recently published in Canada (still not in the U.S., drat it!).

Vinzetta's lifelong search reaches touching end, a search and reunion story that touches on closed records as well.

The great mother who revives an ill-fated boy, the story of a Vietnamese woman who adopted an abandoned baby who lost a leg and genitals to a wild animal before he was found, and her efforts to get him reconstructive surgery.

The kids aren't all right when gay parents can't have both their names on an adopted child's birth certificate, says the Texas Observer.

Ted Nugent tracks down adopted lovechild.  Not much more to say!