A 12-year-old German boy who insisted he was a girl trapped in a boy's body convinced his parents that something had to be done, so they agreed to allow him to receive a series of hormone injections, making him the youngest sex-change patient in the world, according to published reports Monday.
The homosexuals want to push queerness at the younger ages (witness their efforts to promote teen queeridity), but I can't believe they'll rally around this young guyl. Then again, nothing in that other world surprises me anymore.
Be careful. People will stop supersizing:
[McDonald's] has settled upon a new formula for its frying oil. Replacing its partially hydrogenated soybean oil will be a trans-fat-free frying oil made from canola, corn and soybeans, says spokesman William Whitman.
Supersized fries are one of the best things that happened for our family vacations. A couple of supersized fries covers all nine of us. I just wish bars offered supersized beers for a similar price increase.
Air America might get back on its feet. Air America Radio, in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings since October, will be rescued at the 11th hour by Manhattan real estate developer Stephen L. Green. You don't hear it discussed much on the MSM, but the failure of the left to come up with a popular liberal counterpart to Rush and Co. is a source of embarrassment . . . and consternation. What is it about the radio demographic that they can't capture/appeal to? Here's one hunch: People listen to radio in their cars. People are in their cars during the day in connection with work. Therefore, the radio demographic consists of working people, not welfare recipients and elitists who don't work. Just my guess.
Bring on the Okie illicit sex videos, so we can get her de-throned: "Lauren Nelson, an aspiring Broadway star, was crowned Miss America on Monday night, the second year in a row that a Miss Oklahoma has won the crown."
The folks at Yahoo! have some free time. They answered this question recently: Do nuns file income tax returns:
[P]riests and nuns in the Catholic Church are considered employees, or sometimes "self-employed ministers," and report their compensation as income.
Checking back with the IRS, Publication 501 (2006) says people must file a return if they had "wages of $108.28 or more from a church or qualified church-controlled organization that is exempt from employer social security and Medicare taxes." This would mean Catholic priests and nuns dread April 15 just like the rest of us.
But it's also true that some monks and nuns in religious communities take vows of poverty. In exchange for giving up their worldly possessions to the religious order, they're provided with shelter, food, and clothing. Since the order doesn't pay them a salary, these people do not file income tax returns. The income tax only applies to folks who, well, have income.
But don't think a vow of poverty saves you from sending money to The Man. The IRS monitors vow of poverty scams, and has prosecuted many fakers.
This story makes my eyes hurt: "A Chinese man had to have his contact lenses surgically removed after he did not take them out for a year." They still don't grasp the technoloqy goodly.
