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Aug 09 2006

Blanca’s Ugly Baby

Not every baby is cute. That is a fact. Yes, some babies turn out to look like complete angels, but most babies are actually quite ordinary looking. But because of their innate babyness, with their big googly eyes, innocent smiles, and incoherent, but totally adorable gurgling, even plain babies are considered cute, causing adults to act all silly and go “Goo! Widdle baby, poo!” at them. But for some babies, the very unfortunate few, even being a baby cannot overcome their ugliness.

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Jayel Aheram

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Jayel Aheram is a student journalist, Iraq War and Marine veteran, internationally-published photographer, artist, polymath, etc.

Aheram writes about foreign policy, antiwar issues, and the police state at Young Americans for Liberty. He is a longtime political blogger at RedStateEclectic, copyright wonk at Copyfascism Watch, and a sometimes contributor to RT International.

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Aheram is a journalism student at College of the Desert, former editor-in-chief of the student-run newspaper The Chaparral, and founder and former station manager of KCOD Radio and Television.

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