News, Etc.

The Medford Mail Tribune has a brief piece on yesterday's opening of the pedestrian bridge over Barnett Road.

I was right about the length. The Greenway is 42 miles roundtrip.

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One in seven Americans is now living in poverty, and it's probably an understatement, given the fact the "official" poverty line is well below what it takes to live a decent life.

Naturally our politicians have no intention of improving this dire situation. It's supposed to be this way, remember?

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Secretariat is one of my favorite topics, having written about him quite a bit over the years on this blog, so I will definitely be looking at the movie based on his and his owner Penny Chenery's life next month.

It will probably be more accurate than most since Chenery was involved in the making of the film.

Penny Chenery is now 88 years old and lives in Colorado.

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There is something wrong with someone who undergoes extreme plastic surgery. Anybody who has her self worth on the basis of having foreign objects put inside her chest needs her head examined.

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The real reason places like Vegas and Reno are dives: It appears the people there aren't getting any, or not enough.

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Miscellaneous.

A torn parachute is being examined to see if it belongs to the legendary D.B. Cooper.
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Now we get more propaganda about how terrible Medicare and Social Security are and how we need to privatize both.
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Oh, my God. That child is going to be so screwed up, it won't even be funny:

I am transgender, legally male, and legally married to Nancy. Unlike those in same-sex marriages, domestic partnerships, or civil unions, Nancy and I are afforded the more than 1,100 federal rights of marriage. Sterilization is not a requirement for sex reassignment, so I decided to have chest reconstruction and testosterone therapy but kept my reproductive rights. Wanting to have a biological child is neither a male nor female desire, but a human desire.

Ten years ago, when Nancy and I became a couple, the idea of us having a child was more dream than plan. I always wanted to have children. However, due to severe endometriosis 20 years ago, Nancy had to undergo a hysterectomy and is unable to carry a child. But after the success of our custom screen-printing business and a move from Hawaii to the Pacific Northwest two years ago, the timing finally seemed right. I stopped taking my bimonthly testosterone injections. It had been roughly eight years since I had my last menstrual cycle, so this wasn’t a decision that I took lightly. My body regulated itself after about four months, and I didn’t have to take any exogenous estrogen, progesterone, or fertility drugs to aid my pregnancy.

Not to mention the "man" or "woman" or whatever he/she is is missing a few screws in the head.

Actually this person who claims he's a man is a woman, whether he or she likes it or not. Assuming this story is true at all.

Well, the regular news media are picking it up.
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Given how much teenage girls are brainwashed to hate themselves, it's little wonder more than a few of them are undergoing the knife to have boob jobs so that they look better to guys.
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Is the L.A. Times in deep shit regarding its story on the Tupac Shakur murder?
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