I am now the owner of a 2005 Toyota Prius with low miles

Houston unemployment down to 8.5 percent. I'll care when I land a better job.

Its ghost day on the Discovery, which we are obligated to keep on our demo televisions at work. The shows ('A HAUNTING' etc) absolutely drive me bananas. They are a bunch of unverifiable, unfalsifiable claims stitched together with amazing leaps in illogic and drowning in melodrama. These credulous dramatizations, I believe, simply enable pathological people by giving them a forum to share their delusions (or lies) with a gullible audience. What a waste.

Im totally stoked - I am the only one at my store totally fabulous enough to be instantly approved for a RadioShack credit card. Associate Training rocks!

Nessa thinks its probably the transmission. No tranny jokes please.

I believe my car aka the clown car aka the tomato may be headed to the junkyard. :-(

I have bad news Z. I believe the clown car is dead. And not funny ironic death but death death. Tomorrow I will have to go to a mechanic so that last rites can be administered. Grieve for my little red wagon Z you are stronger than me.

Yes we did!

Time to print up the "I'm With Stupak!" t-shirts. Also, Lady Gaga Lawsuit

So it looks like this healthcare thing is going to pass.

Meanwhile, real news for liti-gaga-tors. I've decided to post links to the Fusari complaint and the Germanotta cross-complaint. At some point I am going to read through these and actually come to understand them.

It's No Hoax

Buzz Aldrin to appear on "Dancing With The Stars."

Hopefully will do better than Cloris Leachman.

Coogs versus Terps in 30 minutes!

It's not me, it's you!

The hepcats were aware of this, oh, about a month ago, but because I'm only paying semi-attention to what the APA does, I just now came to my attention that the proposed draft for the DSM V changes "gender identity disorder" (what it says on my medical paperwork) to "gender incongruence." In other words, the APA is proposing to say I'm not sick, just eccentric.

This is no doubt a victory for the GID Reform movement. Genderkid comments:

This is a big improvement: the revision authors are stating that the problem is between a person’s identity and societal pressures, rather than within said person’s identity. I don’t know how they’ll manage to keep this diagnosis within a manual of mental disorders once they’ve recognized that it’s a larger societal issue, as well as a physical one. I guess they don’t know where to put trans people, yet they feel like they have to put us somewhere to maintain a sense of order. We’re just a reminder that human beings are a whole rather than distinct bits –bodies, minds, social beings– to be dealt with separately.

Speaking of which, I had this letter to the editor published in today's Galveston Daily News, in response to Heber Taylor's editorialabout Josh Davis's letter to the editor on Sunday:

Gays Shouldn’t Be ‘Kept In The Closet’

Thank you for the editorial by Heber Taylor (“Tolerance such a bad thing?” The Daily News, March 14). I (almost necessarily) disagree with the letter to the editor by Josh Davis (“Keep the gay lifestyle out of Galveston,” The Daily News, March 14).

I’m a transgender, which means I feel strongly inside that I’m a woman, despite the fact that my birth certificate, driver’s license, etc. say otherwise. I still go to work as a man, and that is how many of my friends know me, even though I have felt strongly since I was a teenager that this isn’t a correct (or at least, fully adequate) description of who I am. In the past year, I have started to come out of the closet and have been truly amazed by the warmth I have felt from my friends and family.

Mr. Davis yearns for a past “when deviant behavior was kept in the privacy of your own home.” Looking forward at how I intend to live out the rest of my life, I cannot accept that — what kind of life is being a shut-in hermit?

Moreover, an article about Galveston published a few years ago described our city as a place where one could go do grocery shopping “in drag.” I can attest from personal experience that this is true; but still, a life lived at home, at the supermarket or (for a little variety) the “gay bars” still is not a particularly fulfilling life. Why settle?

I recently filed for city council in District 2 (under my “boy” name, since that is, after all, still my legal name). The main reason why I’m running is because I have some ideas about protecting our city’s environment and our neighborhoods, and about how a good, just and moral city government ought to work.

But, I also filed because I feel it’s essential to assert that, “alternative lifestyle” or not, I’m a whole person who will not be chained down by other people’s prejudice.

For what it’s worth, I too have an extended family. Many of my gay and transgender friends have families. The best way for Galveston to present itself as a pro-family community is to welcome all families. This may not make everyone comfortable, but it’s the right thing to do.

And thank you for saying that in your editorial, Mr. Taylor.

James “Gwen” Dallas
Galveston

Link Dump

Football is a sport for girls and boys.


Brains and Eggs calls it the "Texas Textbook Massacre." Among the victims of conservative political correctness, "transvestites, transsexuals, and who knows what else." Also, Thomas Jefferson.

Yup.

Transgingerism

I decided to go redder. I'm still a little thin up top, and lightening the color should reduce the contrast between hair and scalp (making it less apparent that it's thin... wait, why am I telling you this?)

Besides, it's almost St. Patrick's Day and everyone loves an Irish girl!

Online...

This seems to be pretty much how people online view me sometimes:

http://www.explosm.net/comics/1982/

Springsteen does "Galveston Bay" live

From a couple months back.

EPIC KAYBAY FAIL

KBH just conceded to Rick Perry.

Omg I GOING TO HAVE TO FIND THE US v CANADA gold medal game (I missed it) online!