It doesn't look like they can even stand up on their own

Yesterday was my birthday and a satisfying one it was! We listened to BBC while gardening; affording us the opportunity to hear more about the creepy live(s) of conjoined twins. Taking the prize for stoopidest modus vivendi is their earnestly avowed dedication to "run their own lives" - as individuals who don't share skeletal bone, tissue and blood - might do. While one of the twins is a country music singing star the other is a just-folks regular fan who has to pay admission to the concerts like anyone else! Aw shucks! No guest list? There are pictures and a transcript. You can hear the woman sing - not good. I'm sure however that as they don't allow themselves slack for their differences - they wouldn't cotton to the rest of the world pardoning them just cuz...

I ran into an article called "To Have and Have Not" all about the record smashing teen pregnancy rates in Canton, Ohio; 13% compared to 8% nationally. The article seems to suggest that it may have something to do with the abstinance-in-lieu-of sex-ed policies they've got going there! Tremendous! The Stark County school district receives much of its financial support from and therefore sets its moral compass to the Timkin family, "industrialists made rich by the manufacture of machine-lubricating ball bearings. William R. Timken, Jr. delivered such a large swath of Ohio (and hundreds of thousands of dollars) to the Bush campaign that many in the community have said the Timkens were a -- if not the -- deciding force in the outcome of the 2004 election. President Bush made Mr. Timken the ambassador to Germany shortly thereafter." So, not a single child is being left behind in that neck of the woods. Nice work! If I hadn't given stoopidest mv out to the twins - the town of Canton could wear that ribbon. Alas.