Surly's Soap Box

I haven't done a Bastard Report for a while, but I just couldn't help myself after seeing this tripe on Drudge:

Brangelina to Marry When Everybody Can

Brad Pitt, ever the social activist,

Since when has he become a social activist? Is adultery social activism? "Watch me change the world through screwing around on my wife! It worked for Bill Clinton!"

says he won't be marrying Angelina Jolie until the restrictions on who can marry whom are dropped.

"Angie and I will consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able," the 42-year-old actor reveals in Esquire magazine's October issue, on newsstands Sept. 19.

In the article he reflects on "fifteen things I think everyone should know."

Though Shiloh, the world-famous daughter of Pitt and girlfriend/earth mother Angelina Jolie, hogged much attention upon her birth in May, Pitt says he "cannot imagine life" without adopted children, Maddox, 5, and Zahara, 1.

File this under, "Who Cares?" The only people who care are people whose lives are so pathetic that they have to get wrapped up in the lives of equally pathetic 'celebrities'. The only thing separating 'Brangie' from a trailer park is their millions. Take the money away, and they are nothing but white trash.

"They're as much of my blood as any natural born, and I'm theirs," says Pitt. "That's all I can say about it. I can't live without them. So: Anyone considering (adoption), that's my vote."

Pitt, who plays a world traveler in the upcoming drama "Babel," subscribes to a laid-back parenting style.

"I try not to stifle them in any way," he says. "If it's not hurting anyone, I want them to be able to explore. Sometimes that means they're quite rambunctious."

Yup, a bunch of Paris Hilton's coming up.

Lucky kids.

Lucky to be taken out of the orphanages indeed. I won't argue that. I have some friends that are going through the process of adopting some kids from Ethiopia right now, and they were telling me that there is a 'love/hate' relationship between Jolie and the services that help facilitate adoptions. They 'hate' her for just waltzing in and adopting who ever and when ever she wants because of the status that money has bought, yet at the same time she has brought a lot of attention to the plight of orphans and the issues of adoption. Brad Pitt? He hasn't done anything other than ride in on her wave.

"I feel it's really important to have that time to sit and talk to them," he continues. "I really like that last minute before they fade off. And always give them a heads-up before you jerk them out of something. You need to tell them, like, `You have three more minutes.'"

I have no idea what he's talking about here. I guess when you've got time and wealth, your so busy pondering the deep philosophical thing of this world that once in a while you have to stop and share them with your kids. Or anybody else who will listen.