Stop perverting the language and erasing women.
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The judge in the Connecticut case needs to go.
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Obituary: "Aimee" Stephens, the "transgender" at the center of a USSC case where he demanded the funeral home from which he worked regard him as a "woman," has died. He had been suffering from kidney disease for years, to the point of dialysis. He was a year younger than my niece, who had PKD and finally had a kidney transplant last year right before her mother, my sister, died.
I know it is "rude" to call this guy "he" and a man and all that, but I am not going to lie here.
The USSC's ruling on this absurd case is expected shortly.
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Yesterday marked the actual 35th birthday of champion racehorse Forty Niner, foaled May 11, 1985, and must be among the oldest living thoroughbreds in the entire world. He certainly ranks among the longest lived of all thoroughbred stallions. Only Bargain Day at 37 and top sire Lyphard at 36 lived longer, at least in modern times.
I remember when he raced against and won against Seeking the Gold (another long-lived horse who made it to 31) back in the 1988 Travers Stakes.
Forty Niner has spent the past 25 years in Japan, and he is doing great. A recent article from February notes his great longevity.
Forty Niner is the last remaining survivor of an outstanding crop that also included such notables as Risen Star, Seeking the Gold, Criminal Type, Sunshine Forever, Brian’s Time, Proper Reality, Private Terms, Fourstardave, and Dynaformer. The Claiborne Farm owned- and -bred colt was well known as a tenacious fighter, winning eyeball-to-eyeball stretch battles in the Haskell Invitational (G1), Travers (G1), and NYRA Mile. He didn’t always win them, though, losing photos in the Florida Derby (G1), Lexington (G2), and Woodward (G1) in addition to the Kentucky Derby.
Here is a picture I took of the champ back in 1989, when he was a mere four years old:
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