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• His boys can swim, and they want parental equality! The strange new world of the sperm-donor-rights movement.




• CELEBRITY ALERT: We've been so caught up in the Gosselins here Stateside, that we've pretty much forgotten all about the U.K.'s most dysfunctional couple, Katie and Peter, who spent the holidays arguing over their kids' haircuts.If you don't know who these two dimwits are, well -- consider yourself lucky.


• Being an ice-cream man in East Oakland can't be easy -- obviously this vendor felt his frozen-treat transporter had to look the part.


• Son, I've got an IOU on your allowance this week -- and, um, can you spot me five bucks? Twenty percent of U.K. parents admit to raiding kids' piggybanks.


• See, adolescents aren't all that bad after all: Teens notice recession, stop hammering away at their financially beleaguered parents for gifts, money.