some people need to be mocked

It's just that some of them really go out of their way to attract our attention to this fact. What a bunch of idiots!

Is the "transgender agenda" connected in any way to the "gay and lesbian agenda"? If you're a member of the lesbian agenda and you transition to male gender, do you have to give up your lesbian agenda identity card and go through a debrief before you can get your TG agenda briefing (sorry, I spent the morning in a security briefing, so special status briefings are on my brain).

Is the transgender agenda a sub-agenda of the New World Order agenda? Does it relate to the International Zionist Conspiracy? Because, man (or woman), I'm tellin' you, I am betting that the Lubavicher rebbes are not real supportive of TG transition, and I'm dead sure they don't think highly of gays and lesbians. And as for the ultra Orthodox wanting to be part of a world conspiracy run through the UN... Given, that it's the same UN that passes resolutions condemning Israel every time they, well, bulldoze a few streets of terrorist houses or blow up a terrorist leader and accidentally kill some female terrorists, teenage terrorists, and baby terrorists, I can't really see Yona Metzger or Shlomo Amar sitting down to plot takeover strategies with Kofi Annan.

"No sex, please, we're German" story a hoax

for those with whom I shared the original "story," here's a correction from Snopes, via Dan Savage's column:

And while we're on the subject of last week's column: I mentioned a story about a religious couple who didn't know they had to have sex in order to get pregnant. It turns out the story is a hoax. Or as one reader put it, "Congrats on being the latest fucking retard sucked in by the infertile German couple urban legend. You're in good company, Savage, right up there with Fox News!" For a full rundown on just how freakin' stupid I am, go to www.snopes.com/pregnant/nosex.asp.

words of wisdom

Jon Stewart tells it like it is.

Thanks to robbysmomfor pointing me to this. Despite the silliness, this is really a very good commencement address, IMO. If I could remember what Dr. Brzezinski or Neal Simon or Stephen Jay Gould said to my class or the ones before it whose matriculation or commencement exercises I attended, I would make a thoughtful comparison. Alas, those memories ahve gone the way of quadratic equations and BASIC programming skills. So I'll just agree with Mr Stewart (sorry, Dr Stewart) that life outside William and Mary (or indeed Williams, or almsot any other college) is not surrounded by three-foot-high brick walls.