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So, I was reading an article on the Fox News website in which a Virginia county library system pulled a children's story about two male penguins who hatched a chick together.  As it turns out, the book is based on a true story about Roy and Silo, who accomplished the feat at Central Park Zoo in NYC.

Now, I was going to post a blog about censorship (it's based on a TRUE story, and even if it wasn't, you had better pull all books about any kind of relationship if you're pulling this one) and gay rights (mind your own business social conservatives), but as I read the Wikipedia account of Roy and Silo, I decided that the story was just too durn funny to take this in a serious direction.

As it turns out, Roy and Silo were initially trying to hatch a rock.  I'm not sure this story bodes well for men who want to raise children on their own.  We might just find ourselves playing catch with a boulder or pushing garden ornaments on the swing, wondering why our little wunderchild can't read past the 0th grade level.  Well, the zookeepers, in seeing Roy and Silo's love for a rock, decided to see if they could handle a real egg.  It turned out that they could, and the result was a female chick named Tango. The egg hatched, and a few weeks later, Roy and Silo were shocked, tired, emotionally drained, and heard to be muttering "our first child wasn't nearly this temperamental...what HAPPENED!"  Tango is receiving counseling due to the fact that her dads constantly attempted to use her as a paperweight when she was growing up.

In an interesting turn of events,  Tango has decided to get hitched with another female penguin, and they have paired for two mating seasons.  Unlike Roy and Silo, they never attempted to raise a rock.  Yes, men are stupid, but did Roy and Silo have to make us look THAT bad?!?!?

Unfortunately, after 6 years of tasteful decorations and stylish dressing, Roy and Silo broke up.  You might expect that Silo caught Roy getting it on as part of a six way that he hooked up with following a night of shirtless clubbing.   You would be wrong.  It turns out the fundamentalists finally got to Silo, convincing him he was immoral, and "converting" him to being "straight", and he's currently dating a female penguin.  In the near future, expect to see a half page New York Times article proclaiming that it is possible to change your orientation and be saved from an afterlife of eternal damnation, even if you're a penguin.  On the advertisement, Silo will be the grossly unhappy looking penguin proclaiming how the 1st New Church of Latter Day Holyism showed him the path to salvation.  Silo is currently being counseled for suicidal thoughts.