It takes a lot more than genes to make a father

You have to wonder where some men get their nerve.

Take William Garland, the New Jersey trucker who tried to gethis hands on half of slain rapper's Tupac Shakur's multimilliondollar estate. Garland was Shakur's absentee father.

A judge in Los Angeles correctly ruled last week that Garlandwasn't entitled to a dime. The only thing the man ever contributed,besides sperm, was "$820, a bag of peanuts and a ticket toRollerblade," the judge found.I guess Garland still doesn't get it, any more than he did whenhe had sex with Shakur's mother. You can skip out on the mother, butyou can never skip out on your own kid. It's the relationshipbetween a man and his child …