Opening caveat: This is not about international adoption.

The story that follows is no more about adoption than was last year's Zoe's Ark fiasco.

Now that that's out of the way, we can all spend a few minutes being appalled while I attempt to head off any tarrings of adoption with the brush so publicly wielded at the pass. It's this story titled, "An artist's ego ... and adoption" that winds my spring this morning, starting off as it does ...