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Richard Batista, ladies and gentlemen, donated his kidney to his wife. Supposedly she cheated on him. I say supposedly because her lawyer says it's not like Batista says, but they're keeping quiet for now. In his suit for divorce he says he wants his kidney back or $1.5 million.

Now, he's upset because she's not letting him see his 3 children, and I can sympathize, but you take that to the judge and say, "Hey, I demand visitation rights." You don't demand an organ or a large chunk of change.

Here's an article: New York Daily News

See, the key here is what the incident was called...everywhere I look says the same..."donate". He donated the kidney. Let's look at the word "donate."

The #1 definition of "donate" on the Merriam-Webster website is, "to make a gift of ; especially : to contribute to a public or charitable cause." The root of the word goes all the way back to Latin: dare - to give and donum - gift. Even way back in the way back time, it meant a gift...not a loan.

"Here, borrow my kidney." I don't think so.

You can actually watch Batista in this report and see that he is a petulant child in this YouTube video:



That's just twigi!

Check out some personal brushes with litigation twiginess here with links to George Will's take on the subject and a "Weird Al" Yankovic video.