[TheOtherOne]

No, its not odd at all. Why post the obvious? I thought any logical person would presume and understand that Ted's wife and children would be upset and angry. I'm sorry you couldn't comprehend the obvious.

What was odd was YOUR choice to call him a 'bastard' not the made up thoughts you attribute to his family.

Why is it odd, because the insult you level at the boy by calling him a bastard is all the doing of Ted. So it is ironic that you would insult the child. He is only a 'bastard' to the extent Ted refuses to be a father, get it?

[gingersnaps]

Hmmm, I'm stepping into a fight uninvited here, but in my self-appinted position as word police (I already got on someone else's case for applying the Clintonian dodge "mistake" to adultery), I must defend the use of the word, "bastard."

"Bastard" is a cruel word and I wouldn't have used it. But it is what it is. A bastard is a child born out of wedlock.

Trying to soften the word "bastard" by redefining it to mean a child who simply gets no attention from the father, doesn't work.

We conservatives need to resist efforts to change the definition of words. That's what the Left does --and they do it the name of "compassion." E.g., the word "marriage" (we must be compassionate and not make homosexuals feel left out).

[Bee-9]

He is only a 'bastard' to the extent Ted refuses to be a father, get it?

Sorry, you don't get to define the meaning. The Oxford American Dictionary defines "bastard" as: a person born of parents not married to each other. Get it?