First thing. Be careful what you say around little ears. A few weeks ago I took THE BOY to lunch at Hooters. (That’s a long story we’ll save for another day.) While we were waiting wistfully for our check I convinced him to ask the waitress for her number. He did, she thought it was cute, and we all got a good laugh. Yesterday he went with THE WOMAN to a quick lunch with one of her volunteers, and you guessed it. When the waitress brought the check he hit her up for digits. The waitress was stunned, the volunteer missed it, and THE WOMAN was furious with me. Hey, at least the waitress was cute. He’s got good taste. Plus, he’s not going to be that way when he grows up.

Second thing. The New York Times, bastion of knowledge and wisdom that it once was, ran an article this morning that says straight men and gay men are different from each other. Now it takes a real rocket scientist to figure that one out. It seems that some group of science nerds were running tests on a testosterone derivative produced in men’s sweat and an estrogen-like compound in women’s urine. These two substances are thought to be pheromones that cause an increase in sexual arousal in men and women. The study shows that gay men’s brains are stimulated by the smells in the same fashion that the women’s brains are. No shit Sherlock! Of course gay men are going to react like women. Ask any one of them and they’ll tell you that, without having to smell a test tube full of a girl’s piss.

Enjoy your day.