Head Asplode - or, Hate Mail to the Discovery Channel

So.

I got this email from the Discovery Channel today. It appears that in celebrating Mother's Day, it's important that I get a little card with a FREAKING STORK on it, to commemorate the Duggar Family's upcoming 18th *1-8* child. The woman is pregnant again.

I went to delete, and rumpled my nose, and then instead I hit reply and wrote this:

"Wow,

I'm not sure this is the appropriate place for a response, but I don't personally find this something to be celebrated. These people are freaks. That's harsh. There are places in this world that are desperately overcrowded, and someday this continent will be that same if we don't control this impetus to breed, breed, breed. Some people say it's a Biblical imperative, and some biological. Until we can feed and clothe the world, is it really appropriate to make like this is just another neat thing that's too damn big in America?

I don't think it's responsible, and I don't find it interesting or entertaining.

I mean, God bless 'em for taking care of their own, but seriously, some of us are more than brood mares for our particular God."

And then I hit "send"..

I don't have words for it. Have any of you stumbled upon reruns of when they only had 14 or 16 kids? Ach. Anyway, Little Brother and I got Mom some tulips (a metric assload of them) and as far as I know, neither of us is pregnant with our 18th child. So there's nothing wrong with not having 18 children..

I think.