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Global Warning
Written by: Lisa Jain Thompson
#...Fairfax, VA, USA. In Michigan in the United States, a man was arrested when he was caught “receiving sexual favors from a vacuum” at a car wash. In Leeds in England, a gay sous chef has been convicted of murdering his boy...
12-02-08
Word count: 1278
Written by: Lisa Jain Thompson
#...Fairfax, VA, 2008. Life is a bell-shaped curve. The universe is only infrared or ultraviolet on the extremes. What the human species refers to as visible light is, in reality, a combination of the colors the human sees as a r...
11-28-08
Word count: 2283
Written by: Lisa Jain Thompson
#...Fairfax, VA, USA. In the United States of America, the right of any two people to marry each other has been attacked repeatedly by conservative religions and cynical politicians who will sell themselves to any group who will ...
11-23-08
Word count: 2644
Written by: Lisa Jain Thompson
#...Fairfax, VA, USA. Although most of the Twenty-First Century English speaking world is heliocentric — at least as far as the earth revolving around the sun — we still speak of the sun rising in the morning.   I sus...
11-21-08
Word count: 1505
Written by: Lisa Jain Thompson
#...Fairfax, VA, USA. I’ve had my Magic Wand for over a decade, predating my surgery by a number of years. It is loud, powerful, and effective. And set on high, the Hitachi Magic Wand provides an exciting ride. For some reason,...
11-19-08
Word count: 1563
Written by: Lisa Jain Thompson
#...Fairfax, VA, USA. Seventy percent of President-Elect Barack Obama’s Black Support in California voted to ban gay marriage. Raised in the fundamental Protestantism of the black community churches, almost three quarters of th...
11-16-08
Word count: 1477
Written by: Lisa Jain Thompson
#...Fairfax, VA, USA. Barack Obama is the leader of a small group of citizens of whom large numbers of their countrymen do not want any of them to be President of the United States. [N1] He has caught the greased pig in the quad...
11-14-08
Word count: 1595
Written by: Lisa Jain Thompson
#...Fairfax, VA, USA. You can’t deconstruct humor or it vanishes into an intellectual fog, no matter how good the punch line. Of all the columns I write, the ones that usually raise the most hackles are those in which I us...
11-09-08
Word count: 1447
Written by: Lisa Jain Thompson
#...Fairfax, VA, USA. There are three small caliber holes in my stomach where my surgeon poked around and ultimately removed my gall bladder, or GB, as we former owners call it). A fourth lurks inside my belly button, hidden from...
10-22-08
Word count: 1454
Written by: Lisa Jain Thompson
#...Springfield, VA, USA. I am a male to female post-op woman. Given the current state of the science and medicine, I am unable to become pregnant.   A generation from now that may all change and I would have a choice tha...
09-03-08
Word count: 1519
Written by: Lisa Jain Thompson
#... Springfield, VA, USA. The internet is filled with lightweight crazies full of anger and arrogance, self-appointed arbitrators of cultural mores and political correctness. If you read the comments to the columns and science ...
08-22-08
Word count: 1386
Written by: Lisa Jain Thompson
#... Springfield, VA, USA. A strong current of post-modern fundamentalism runs deep in the Transgender movement, leading to an outright rejection of science and lubricating a preference for the safe, non-intellectual confin...
08-16-08
Word count: 2297
Written by: Lisa Jain Thompson
#... Springfield, VA, USA.  Well we have heard from the Transgenders again. I'm not talking about the rank and file transgenders, but the capital "T" sort who act like they can make a serious living by confus...
08-05-08
Word count: 1654
Written by: Lisa Jain Thompson
#... Springfield, VA, USA. There was a story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer about a pre-op transsexual (an HBS woman) who wanted to use the woman’s locker room, just like any other woman. (What woman wants to undress in th...
07-28-08
Word count: 1300
Written by: Lisa Jain Thompson
#... Springfield, VA, USA. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV), like The Bible, is a disparate compilation of many different types of books and methods of varying validity and applicability. Not al...
07-26-08
Word count: 1280
Written by: Lisa Jain Thompson
#... Springfield, VA, USA. Two graduate students have scored an academic trifecta. They learned how to launch their careers via publish-or-perish principles, google the obvious, and cozy up to transgenders. The results of t...
07-23-08
Word count: 2398
Written by: Lisa Jain Thompson
#... Springfield, VA, USA. In an earlier column, I discussed the uproar among the District of Columbia’s transgender community over proposed revisions of the rules and regulations governing gender identity and expression. &n...
07-19-08
Word count: 1612
Written by: Lisa Jain Thompson
#... Springfield, VA, USA. It has already been a week since 11 July 2008 — a date that shall live in infamy — the District of Columbia Office of Human Rights and the Commission on Human Rights suddenly and deliberately ...
07-17-08
Word count: 1228
Written by: Lisa Jain Thompson
#... Springfield, VA, USA. There is no law against someone making you feel uncomfortable, no constitutional right to life free from discomfort, no overriding declaration asserting life, liberty, and deliverance from unpleasant a...
07-13-08
Word count: 1769
Written by: Lisa Jain Thompson
#... Springfield, VA, USA. A previous column, The Woman Who Became A Man Who Became A Woman, discussed Thomas Beatie who was born female, underwent full breast removal (top surgery), and now lives as a male — except that he wa...
07-05-08
Word count: 1602
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