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1. about 23 hours ago on Clay Jones

   Look up “intersex.” Some people are born with ambiguous genitalia, and are both/neither “male” and/or “female.” Sometimes they identify as one or the other, sometimes not, sometimes their parents and doctors make the decision (without the baby’s consent) with surgery and hormone treatments, and sometimes the parents and doctors get it wrong.

   That’s what happens when the ambiguity is VISIBLY APPARENT from birth, but there’s more to gender identity than chromosomes and “parts.” Hormone washes (both during fetal development and in puberty) and perhaps even brain structure have roles. How many transgendered people are simply “exactly as God made them” and are trying to live as their true selves, instead of being mentally ill? The science isn’t settled, but science has only recently even been asking the question. How often does this occur (and does that make a difference)? We don’t know, but if anyone who comes forward and self-reports is immediately treated as a psychiatric case, we’ll never find out.

   When Nature draws a line, it is usually wavy, fuzzy, or permeable. That can be disconcerting to those who only think in “either/or” to the exclusion of “both/neither.”

2. 1 day ago on Clay Jones

   Melania must be soooooo happy about this development…

   (I can’t help it, Melania intrigues me. In no way do I admire her, but I’m interested in her.)

3. 1 day ago on Clay Jones

   One thing this means, though, is that he’s no longer “hands off” for commentary…

4. 1 day ago on Richard's Poor Almanac

   Well, I know from other installments of “Richard’s Poor Almanac” that the Smithsonian rotates its exhibits. Being short of money they couldn’t afford to build a whole new wing, so some of the lesser grifts are in storage at any given time.

5. 1 day ago on Arlo and Janis

   Horizontal symmetry, if you’re into that…

6. 1 day ago on Super-Fun-Pak Comix

   Who’s Afraid to Draw Doug?

   GEORGE: “You’re either a stud, or a houseboy, or Doug. So which are you? Are you a houseboy?”

   MARTHA: “He’s not a houseboy. Or a stud.”

   GEORGE: “So be it.”

7. 1 day ago on Super-Fun-Pak Comix

   While Gramps perhaps read it in book form, strictly speaking it’s a play…

   (Hamlet is my favorite work of fiction, but it’s not my “favorite book;” that’s Cannery Row.)

8. 1 day ago on Joey Weatherford

   It’s of course no crime to show one’s influences, but most try not to make it TOO obvious…

9. 2 days ago on Clay Bennett

   He’s still denying the encounter ever happened, so her testimony is key for foundation of what happened after.

10. 2 days ago on Bill Bramhall

    PS: "Never, never, never, never, never!” may be the bleakest single line of iambic pentameter ever written, even moreso than “To be or not to be, that is the question.”