My Very First Impression After Reading “Baby Invasion”

@Bob Tarantino: “Che” in some cases is forgivable; it was a reasonably common Spanish nickname before got all that baggage associated with Ernesto Guevara. Giving him a hard time for that name in the absence of context is like giving me a hard time because Stalin and I have essentially the same name.

However, this guy’s last name is Stipanovich, so the odds of his being named after Guevara are pretty good, and hence worthy of eye rolling.

The real sprain-your-muscles-from-rolling-your-eyes name has to go tot he kid named Riel, whose dad describes his job as “activist and web developer”. American readers — who make up the vast majority of people who visit this blog — may not get the context. The name “Riel” is likely to be a tribute to Louis Riel, who’s viewed as a sort of revolutionary hero by those on the Canadian left and a traitor by those on the right.