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By Jeremy | February 26, 2007
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Free to be a He-She. Manhattan Family Court Judge Sheldon Rand ruled this morning that the City must pay for a 21-year-old man's sex change surgery because s/he had been in the care of the city's Administration for Children's Services as a teen. He called the surgery to remove one's manhood "necessary" medical care that the city -- as his guardian when he decided at eighteen that he was a girl trapped in a boy's body -- is obligated to pay: "This court has recognized that gender-identity disorder is a real condition and there is a real solution to it and people don't have to suffer from it."
+ Which sport looks worse, the NFL or the NBA? Columnist Jayson Whitlock calls
this incident, where NFL all-pro "Pacman" Jones caused a riot during the NBA all-star weekend by distributing $81,000 in $1-dollar bills to strippers, just another sign that, "
the NBA is aligned too closely with thugs. Stern is going to have to take drastic measures to break that perception/reality. All-Star Weekend can no longer remain the Woodstock for parolees, wannabe rap artists and baby's mamas on tax-refund vacations." Leaving aside Whitlock's hypocrisy -- he earlier wrote a column for his regular gig at the
Kansas City Star where he called All-Star Weekend a "
Perfect Party" featuring his own gambling and strip club hopping -- his basic lament about the bad behavior of professional athletes holds true. Now if we can only figure out how to get through to bad boy sports reporters. Heh.
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This KFC/Taco Bell is ten minutes from my office. Eew.
+ Oscar Buzz
I'm digging the Jennifer Hudson/Forrest Whitaker story.
"Best Picture" The Departed is a good flick with nothing redemptive whatsoever to offer (other than stellar performances and a cheesy cutaway at the end).
Was anyone surprised by this?
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