It's a Miracle...

The birth of a baby boy for the long-suffering Japanese imperial family means a couple of things, in my own humble opinion:
a) We can stop listening to jackass throwback neanderthals talk about the need to protect the throne from the enervating effect of women1,
b) We can listen to a bunch of people whose job it is to make noise about things make a lot of noise about how this will be the thing that inspires Japanese families to finally start having more kids to reverse the population decline,
c) An all-important return to the news that really matters: Killing kittens, the value of Pluto and which half of T&A is more naughty than the other2.

1. "I'm glad it's a boy," said Ryoji Inoue, 33, a salaryman interviewed at a subway station here. "I want the male succession to be maintained. That's because Japanese society is still led by men. I hope a couple of more boys will be born. The imperial law can be changed when we don't have any choice in the future."
- For Japanese, their prince has finally come, By Norimitsu Onishi The New York Times, September 6, 2006

2. "Our earlier request to cover the photo [of a naked, pregnant Britney Spears] from the waist down was because of nudity, not because we had anything against pregnant women," he said, adding that officials later decided that censoring the photo would be inappropriate. -Tatsuya Edakubo, Tokyo Metro spokesman
-Tokyo Subway to Display Naked Spears Ad, By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Aug 24, 2006 (AP)