The Tuesday Eudemon
Election day. Goodness knows, the Republicans deserve a slap, but I'd love to see the look on the collective MSM's face if the Dems don't at least win the House. They're drooling on themselves right now: the House, the Senate, the majority of state legislatures! Maybe the Dems will even capture the EU! Oh wait, they already have that.
You may have recalled that the MSM (plus the fanatical fringe at Huffpo) were gleeful that Lieberman lost the primary and that his third-party election bid floundered at first. You don't see a whole lot of references to the matter anymore. Probably because: Lieberman, whose Senate career was at risk just three months ago after he lost to anti-war challenger Ned Lamont in the Democratic primary, led Lamont by 12 percentage points in a statewide poll released Monday.
The Chinese are catching up with us in all aspects: "Rising affluence has made about 60 million Chinese - equal to the population of France - obese, state media said on Monday."
Best story of the day, if you want to bury your head in your hands and cry:
Separating anatomy from what it means to be a man or a woman, New York City is moving forward with a plan to let people alter the sex on their birth certificate even if they have not had sex-change surgery.
Under the rule being considered by the city's Board of Health, which is likely to be adopted soon, people born in the city would be able to change the documented sex on their birth certificates by providing affidavits from a doctor and a mental health professional laying out why their patients should be considered members of the opposite sex, and asserting that their proposed change would be permanent. . . .
The change would lead to many intriguing questions: For example, would a man who becomes a woman be able to marry another man? (Probably.) Would an adoption agency be able to uncover the original sex of a proposed parent? (Not without a court order.) Would a woman who becomes a man be able to fight in combat, or play in the National Football League? (These areas have yet to be explored.)
Great stuff. I just want to know what most guys want to know: Can we declare ourselves a women and hang out in the ladies' bathroom?
The best part of the story is at the end:
Joann Prinzivalli, 52, a lawyer for the New York Transgender Rights Organization, a man who has lived as a woman since 2000, without surgery, said the changes amount to progress, a move away from American culture's misguided fixation on genitals as the basis for one's gender identity.
“It's based on an arbitrary distinction that says there are two and only two sexes,” she said. “In reality the diversity of nature is such that there are more than just two, and people who seem to belong to one of the designated sexes may really belong to the other.”
G.K. Chesterton said some things can't be argued with. They simply must be stomped out with one's heel. This is one of them. You can't argue. You simply have to call them "freaks" and get on with your day.
B16 said the hard words that need to be said more often. Mortal sin damns. Life isn't all ho ho ho's, and if it is, you might find yourself in hell, hell, hell:
The Pope devoted most of his Sunday audience to a reflection on the Christian understanding of death. An affluent society, he observed, often avoids the topic of death, but inevitably every mortal is brought face to face with this reality, which seems "radically hostile and contrary to our natural vocation to life and to happiness."
I never paid much attention to Steven Irwin (the Crocodile Hunter), but I'm stunned at the amount of glee his death provoked. Sample: "Two months after the stunning death of Australian "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, a new musical featuring a troupe of dancing stingrays is in the works mocking the tragedy."
And finally: Britain is already regretting this postage stamp picture that comes out today:
