Friday, November 19, 2010

The Prevailing Disparity Between the Number of Horse's Asses and the Number of Horses

The Prevailing Disparity Between the Number of Horse's Asses and the Number of Horses

When there’s a top, there’s always a bottom. When there’s a beginning, there’s always an ending. When there’s a horse, there’s always one horse head and one horse derriere–except that sometimes there are more horse’s asses than there are horses, an odd but all too frequent confluence of improbabilities which seems more prevalent today than usually.

One instance proving the existence of such an improbability is occurring out in Apple Valley, Minnesota where Alicia and Peter Arnold are seeking input via an online poll of the world at large, from strangers and fellow kooks, on whether the couple should keep their 17-week pre-born baby or whether they should terminate its life.

Alicia explained the Twin City suburbanites’ motivation: “We wanted to give people a chance to voice their opinions in a real situation where it makes a difference.” Still recovering from her third miscarriage, she added,”I wanted to wait longer because I was losing weight and living a healthier lifestyle. I wasn’t sure what to do.”

The obvious solution for the Arnold dilemma was to ask a million or so strangers “what to do.”
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2728)

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