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Judgment calls

I often find myself yelling “WHAT??” when watching or reading the news and it’s usually not in a good way. This afternoon two articles in particular caught my eye. Both are about people who apparently lack the ability to make good judgment calls.

• Cake request for 3-year-old Hitler namesake denied

  A New Jersey supermarket refused to put the child’s full name — Adolf Hitler Campbell — on his birthday cake. His father claims that people need to accept that “a name is a name” and is surprised that there were objections. Little Adolf has two siblings: JoyceLynn Aryan Nation and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie.

  Response: Really? Really?? The father thinks there’s nothing wrong with naming his child after one of the most notorious figures in history? Someone who was responsible for the death of millions just because they weren’t part of the “pure” race? Apparently, in past years they had asked for a swastika to be included on a cake. I feel sorry for JoyceLynn Aryan Nation. That’s not racist or supremacist at all. Uh uh. Surely not.

• Drew Peterson engaged for the fifth time.

  Drew Peterson’s publicist has confirmed that Peterson is engaged to an unidentified woman. Peterson is still a suspect in the disappearance of his wife, Stacy Peterson. Peterson is still legally married to Stacy, who disappeared October 28, 2007. Drew Peterson has maintained that she ran off with another man, leaving him and their two children, aged 6 and 4. His new fiance is reported to be 23 years old, the same age Stacy was when she disappeared. Drew Peterson is 54.

  Response: I really have to question this woman’s intelligence. After Stacy Peterson disappeared, authorities exhumed the body of Kathy Peterson, Drew Peterson’s third wife. Her death had first been ruled as suicide. Officials have now classified her death as a homicide. This man has been married four times now, is a suspect in the disappearance of the fourth, and his third wife was apparently murdered. How does she think this story is going to end? I generally keep my nose out of people’s relationship choices but this seems beyond unwise.