I don’t mean this as an insult or anything, but what exactly makes what we might call a “transracial” person different from a transgender person? All of the points you made about why a white person can’t just “decide” to wake up and be black are the same arguments that for decades were used to say that a man can’t…

I can’t believe I’m saying this, and fuck Rick Perry still, but it seems like this hearing is going about as well as any of the hearings so far, inasmuch as me not thinking our country is totally fucked:

Wrong game. Fallout comes out tomorrow. ;)

Those numbers really perfectly illustrate the fact that these guys show about as much respect for tax dollars as they do for toilet paper. $2.5 billion in losses from the last shutdown... and they are going to do it again over $500 million of funding that is only loosely tied to the issue they are up in arms about.