Here are some of the baby names I've learned of in the past few days:
*Moxie Crimefighter
*Metallica
*4-Real, and
*Autumn Sullivan Corbett Fitzsimmons Jeffries Hart Burns Johnson Willard Dempsey Tunney Schmeling Sharkey Carnera Baer Braddock Louis Charles Walcott Marciano Patterson Johansson Liston Clay Frazier Foreman Brown.
So, my first question is why, but then my second one is should anybody be allowed to tell us "no" ? (as in the 4-Real case)
I guess that if somebody wanted to name their baby Adolf Hitler (to do so is illegal in some countries, big shocker), or...Satan, for example, then maybe somebody would have to tell them "no".
Who knows. But I like what this guy says:
"You can't use a four letter word that I wouldn't use in this interview anyway, and other than that you're free to do what you want," said New York University Sociology Department Chairman Dalton Conley. "That's part of the first amendment right to free speech here in America."
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
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We're pretty liberal about that sort of thing in Canada but in Quebec, you do have to get permission for your child's name. I don't think you have to elsewhere though.
I don't think anyone should be able to tell you "No", especially our government, however, the parents deserve a certain degree of heavy scowls since their child will now endure an extra dose of Struggle. At least until they are old enough to change it, and at that point they will be so weathered that they will already have told themselves "It made me stronger", and probably won't change it. I think the world offers enough challenges, why stamp them with more?
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