Australian researchers have found a genetic link between male-to-female transsexuality and the genes that control testosterone. Now if you’re a man who looks fabulous in a dress, you can say, “I know! I was born this way!” (No word yet on any genetic basis for preferring a Vera Wang over a Marc Jacobs)
Despite the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US military fired on Syria this weekend. War is like potato chips to these guys.
But we’re just over a week until the US election and things look grim for John McCain. Check out these numbers from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Saturday night:
Crowd for Senator Obama: 35,000 inside the venue and another 10,000-15,000 outside.
Crowd for Senator McCain: 1,400 according to the McCain campaign, 1,000 or less according to reporters.
Next day, Obama spoke in Denver:
No wonder the McCain people are freaking out and mailing Jewish voters weird reminders of the Holocaust — implosion!
Meanwhile, Sarah Palin is now disobeying him on the campaign trail. Poor guy. It’s an old story: old man meets ambitious working girl, introduces her to his influential friends, buys her $150,000 worth of fancy clothes and then watches her run off in her new red powerdress. It’s ‘Pretty Woman’ but with a Washington ending!
And, in the other ballot-box drama: here’s something new about the people trying to stop gay marriage in California — they really hate being filmed!
This level of anger makes it all the weirder that Mormon and sci-fi author Orson Scott Card can’t understand why gay people are upset about their right to marry in California being taken away: “What’s the hurry? Why the hostility toward even the slightest
opposition? Can’t our opponents wait to get their way until they have
persuaded a clear majority? Can’t they listen to people with ideas that
are different from theirs?” Orson, Orson, we’ve talked about this before: go read some Martin Luther King and then come and rant us again, okay? Kisses!
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