File this one under crying at work: a man finds a newborn on a subway platform and he and his partner adopt him and then blub blub blub, I’m sorry I have to go there’s something in both my eyes and my nose.
Three months later, Danny appeared in family court to give an account of finding the baby. Suddenly, the judge asked, “Would you be interested in adopting this baby?” The question stunned everyone in the courtroom, everyone except for Danny, who answered, simply, “Yes.”
“But I know it’s not that easy,” he said.
“Well, it can be,” assured the judge before barking off orders to commence with making him and, by extension, me, parents-to-be.
Bonus: Here’s a clip from 2000 of Danny Stewart, the man who found the baby, on Montel Williams’ show:
Read the whole story above. It’s life-affirming.
So here’s one of the more depressing things you’ll see today. It’s a scene outside of a NYC elementary school, in which a congressman (and Senate hopeful looking to win a primary next week) tries to lead a group of grade-schoolers in the singing of an uber-patriotic song — not the National Anthem, but that Lee Greenwood hit from the 1980s. The scene is sad at best and makes everyone look bad. So how did we get here? Read up below:
While we agree this was an avoidable situation, isn’t it a tad demeaning to refer to the guy as a “man-child?” Okay, so he loaded himself into an infant-sized swing, one for which he was clearly too big; this sounds, on the surface, somewhat baby-esque. But he did this to collect on a bet, not just for kicks. That is, there was a financial incentive at play. Also, the lede contends that he was “wailing like a baby,” but the original report just says he was “screaming.” It could have been more of a gruff shout, or perhaps an angry yell, or something else decidedly not baby-esque. So, we think Unnamed Vallejo Man is getting a bit of a bad rap. Especially given the valuable lesson he’s taught us all. source
» Welcome to the world: A Texas woman named Janet Johnson gave birth to a big time baby today, a child she named JaMichael who weighs in at the astonishing number you see above. East Texas’ Longview hospital has already verified that he’s the biggest newborn baby they’ve delivered, and they’re looking to see if this is a state record as well — Guinness World Records claim the all-time largest newborn was a 23 pound baby born in Ohio in 1879, for what that’s worth..
Justin Bieber Gets Shot: “Baby” Remix
Justin Bieber got shot on CSI and it was incredible … although the music they used felt a bit out of place.
We think we know what Bieber’s marketing has been missing.
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