I don't know about you, but I'm already a little sick of little Blue Ivy Carter. And she has only just left the hospital under the cloak of secrecy. Already proud daddy Jay-Z has cut a record about her. Poor mite doesn't stand a chance.
What's interesting about the track, "Glory feat. B.I.C.," recently posted on his Life + Times website, is not that it samples the newborn crying, but the heartbreaking revelation that the couple suffered a "tragic" miscarriage before conceiving Blue in Paris.
"We was afraid you disappeared," he raps, "but nah, dear, you magic."
Fans and friends were touched by the rapper's unabashed joy: "Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real / Baby, I paint the sky blue / My greatest creation was you."
Call me crazy, but isn't the sky already bleu?
A Calgary woman who got so tipsy that she fell down the stairs to the ladies room and cracked her skull, is suing the pub for $1.25 million.
Gloria Williams blames staff at the Riverbend Station Pub for allowing her to keep boozing, after she was already drunk.
When she tried to descend the stairwell to the washroom, she fell and hit the cement floor, causing substantial injuries, including a subdural haemorrhage, which required surgery, and basal skull fractures.
Williams claims the bar's owners were negligent for "failing to provide easy and safe access to its washroom facilities," together with the City of Calgary, for approving the building design.
She was left with partial paralysis of her face, right shoulder, arm, hand and leg, as well as post traumatic amnesia.
Considering the vast majority of bars and restaurants have their facilities located in the basement, should the pub, or even the City, be held responsible for this accident, or should Williams be held accountable for her own disastrous actions?
If pregnancy is a disability, then why not pedophilia, too? And while we're at it, how about kleptomania and even exhibitionism?
Greeks are up in arms about a government decision to include expand its list of state-recognized disabilities, which would see pedophiles granted higher disability pay than those with organ transplants.
The expanded list now includes pyromaniacs, compulsive gamblers, fetishists and sadomasochists – all of whom are eligible for financial assistance.
Blind NCDP leader Yiannis Vardakastanis worries the new inclusions could create extra challenges for bona fide disabled Greeks who are already facing benefit cuts due to the country's continued financial crisis and austerity measures.
"What's happened is incomprehensible. I think there is some big mistake. The ministry should have a different policy on disability," said Vardakastanis. "The list contains major changes to disability quotients, which could effectively remove many people from access to benefits."
While a heart transplant recipient would receive, say, 80 percent disability pay, pyromaniacs and pedophiles would receive 35.
Vardakastanis rightly thinks it's crackpot to compare Peeping Toms with diabetics "who have insulin shots four or five times a day."
Should pedophiles, pyromaniacs and the like receive compensation for their conditions or be left to fend for themselves?
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