• With today being the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the anti-choicers are out in full frontal crazy mode. One particularly dick protester smashed his SUV into a Planned Parenthood in St. Paul this morning. The damage was minor. • Two sixteen-year-old British girls were banned from school for being "too blonde." The school's dress code states that there should be no "unnatural" hair color on students. • The man charged with spraying Afghan school girls with acid says that he was paid by a major in the Afghan intelligence unit for the attacks. The girls continue to attend school undeterred. • Adolf Hitler Campbell's mother has told newspapers that "we would never abuse our children," and "I want my children back." • Mariana Bridi da Costa, a finalist in the Miss World competition, had her hands and feet amputated after being diagnosed with a urinary disease. • A new survey has found that professional women are more likely to drink alone at home than men or women in "routine or manual" occupations. • Two women whose sexual harassment accusations led to the resignation of an Ohio attorney general have reached a settlement and will receive over $200,000. • A man from Nevada shackled his 15-year-old daughter to her bed and beat her with a stick because he thought she was overweight. • In other awful parenting news: A 52-year-old Denver woman has been accused of binding her 10-year-old daughter's hands and feet each night because she suspected she was sneaking food. • Two teens from Minnesota have been arrested for abusing the elderly residents of a nursing home where they were employed part-time. • A town in Brazil where one in five pregnancies result in twins may have been the site of Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele's post-war experiments. Mengele was obsessed with twins, and some speculate that he "found the secret of twins." • Men's Health has named the worst food in America. This year it is the 2,600-calorie Baskin Robbin's large chocolate Oreo shake. • The Cat House in Parlier, California, is now home to 700 stray cats and even a few dogs. The owner of the 12-acre shelter says: "There was no place else for all of these cats, and I had all of this land." • Josef Fritzl's trial is set to begin March 16. He faces chargers of murder, rape, false imprisonment, and enslavement. • Polygamous communities in Canada are using the recent legalization of gay marriage as evidence to help overturn laws against polygamy. • Want to know what life looks like for your pet? For $50 you can buy a little camera to attach to their collars. Or you could just crouch down and see for yourself, but whatever. • Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Islamic leaders have condemned comments made by an Australian Muslim cleric who said it was OK to beat and rape your wife. • A British woman living in Dubai lost her appeal to have a sentence for adultery reduced from six months in prison to three. She also faces deportation. • A new study suggests that women suffer from worse nightmares than men because they are more likely to carry emotions from daily life into their sleep. • An 83-year-old man missed his bus back to Indiana because he was busy dancing with a young lady at the inauguration party. He has since found his way home and will be alright. • Head honchos at the San Fransisco Sentinel are trying to sell ad space by advertising their (attractive) female account executive. • A former manager of Hawaiian Tropic says that her boss bribed her to lie about her 2006 rape by a supervisor. • The Swedish National Library apparently has a large collection of child pornography dating from the 1970s, when it had not yet been made illegal. • 

When we last heard, the Campbell family’s custody hearing had been postponed, and the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services had not yet given a reason for the removal. Confidentiality rules currently prevent Family Services from discussing the case, but the Times found a professor of law willing to speculate on the legal grounds for removal. Laura Cohen, from Rutgers Law School, said: “Looking ahead, you could imagine the state making an argument that the ShopRite rejection is a precursor of things to come,” and that the children may be “subject to lifelong ridicule and harassment.” However, Cohen is uncertain over whether this argument would hold. She says she knows of a New York child named for a venereal disease, and that it may be beyond the bounds of the law to question the parental right to name their child. Indeed, it seems hard to believe that a terrible choice of names would be enough to revoke a parent’s rights, but it looks as though this may have been what happened.

In addition to their legal problems, it seems that the Campbells are also facing eviction. Their landlord has decided not to renew their lease because a relative they frequently argued with had threatened to “firebomb the house.” However, the landlord also said that they were clean and non-destructive, yet still, “enough is enough.”

Perhaps most significantly is the insight into the Campbell’s Nazi sympathizing, which is what landed them in this mess in the first place. While their racist leanings are certainly abhorrent, it appears that the Campbells are not particularly avid (or well informed) white supremacists. The New York Times reports that Mr. Campbell used to decorate his house with confederate flags, and it is only recently that he became interested in Nazi Germany. Mr. Campbell legally changed the names of his children only a few months ago, dropping Adolf Hitler’s first name (he used to be Antonio Adolf) and correcting the spelling of “Aryan” on his daughter’s birth certificate. He holds to his belief that Hinler is the correct spelling of Himmler. Mr. Campbell recently said that watching the History Channel has led him to change his beliefs on the Holocaust. He says he now believes that “[Hitler] did it. It was cruel. But I didn’t name my son for the guy who killed all these people. My son is going to learn to love. None of my kids are going to have a bone of hate in their body.” While none of this makes his actions less disgusting, or his beliefs any easier to dismiss, it does raise questions about his rights as a parent. If Heath Campbell's worst crime was exceptional, mind-blowing ignorance, is that enough to justify the removal of his children?

Naming Children for Nazis Puts Spotlight on the Father [New York Times]

Earlier: Baby Hitler Taken From Parents, Adolf Hitler Campbell’s Custody Hearing Postponed

Adolf, one-year-old JoyceLynn Aryan Nation and 8-month-old Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie "were removed from their parents’ home Tuesday night by the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services," according to the local police chief, who admitted that the police had not received any reports of abuse or neglect. The parents are due in court for a hearing over what one can only assume involves naming one's children after prominent Nazis and raising them as white supremacists.

Now, we don't yet know why the kids were seized, and one assumes there's got to be a better legal basis than just abhorrent beliefs and cruel and unusual naming (insert yuppie name joke here)...because, if not, Heath and Deborah Campbell would seem to have a pretty good case. And as we know from the unpleasant birthday-cake incident, they're not exactly adverse to litigation. Stay tuned.

Adolf Hitler, Sisters Taken from Parents' Home [NBC]

Earlier: The View: Not OK To Name Baby Adolf, OK To Oppose Gay Marriage
http://jezebel.com/5112404/the-view-not-ok-to-name-baby-adolf-ok-to-oppose-gay-marriage