Thanks. Fortunately or unfortunately, Dr. Archibald died 10 years ago or so. He was in his late 90s, proving that longevity has nothing to do with virtue. I have to admit that I was relieved when I saw his obituary, although I was disgusted by all the stuff about his being a pillar of his community, a Deacon in his…

Thanks so much. The reason I said that about Jezebel was that it seems that the majority of Dr. Archibald’s patients were boys (at least at the time!) — I suspect because parents worried more about short sons than short daughters) — and most of the abuse seems to have been directed at boys. Although he did take the…

Thank you. It isn’t easy. I’ve actually written anonymously on the Internet (including here, I think) about what happened, every so often, at least as far back as 2006, both for reassurance that what Dr. Archibald did really was wrong — I always struggled with the thought that maybe he was right that there were…

This isn’t something that Jezebel is likely to cover, but there’s a front-page story in the New York Times yesterday about a prominent pediatric endocrinologist who sexually abused dozens — and probably hundreds — of child patients during the period of nearly 30 years when he operated a “growth clinic” at the…

Sure she speaks five languages.  Just like she has an architecture degree, or whatever it was she claimed.  

Agreed. I’ve watched three episodes so far, and I’m very happy with them. (Watching the 30-minute recap of seasons 1 and 2 available on Amazon Prime really helped!)

There are so many people I’d love to see end up like Mussolini.  I’m not proud to admit it, but it’s true.

26 straight years over .500, in fact!

The Marlins tried to trade him to the Cardinals and Giants first and he vetoed those trades. Blame them for giving him a huge salary and full no-trade clause, not the Yankees.

Anti-Semitic piece of shit. Since when are Windmiller and Burnside Jewish names anyway?  (Answer: they’re not.)

What’s even more disgusting is that I have no doubt he maintained his erection throughout.

I used to eat Frosted Flakes with orange juice poured over them!  Loved it.  Now I just eat them dry, but with a glass of orange juice on the side.

They apparently called him Diaper Don.

What you’re hearing is incorrect. There has been an official mechanism for this for a long time. The law was already changed in NYC in early 2015 to eliminate the requirement for having genital surgery in order to change your gender marker on your birth certificate, and requiring only an affidavit or affirmation from…

Yes. I testified in support of this law before the NY City Council in June, and it really has two separate aspects: (1) permitting gender marker changes on birth certificates based on self-attestation (or, for minors, the attestation of a parent or guardian) instead of requiring a supporting affidavit or affirmation si…

This applies only to people born in New York City -- not elsewhere in New York State or in other states.  (I believe that New York is the only state where one city has different rules for birth certificates and gender marker changes than the rest of the state.)  

I did 90 hours straight in college writing my senior paper on an old manual typewriter. I took a ton of No-Doz. I finished the paper about 5 minutes before the deadline. I didn’t notice much difference, because I was so focused on clacking away on that damn typewriter.  Of course, I didn’t have a chance to read over…

Not too many people seem to get that I was joking, as evidenced by my later comment that “Hey, it was worth a try!”  Of course she’s ethnically Jewish; my point is simply that she wasn’t raised as religiously Jewish.  You can’t be a religious Jew and a religious Mormon at the same time.

Google it, and you’ll find many sources for her being active in the LDS church in Utah from the age of 6 to 16.  

I know.  Hey, it was worth a try!