• You've already heard about the pregnant man.
But what about the she-man fish? "Intersex" freshwater fish are all the rage. But unlike the pregnant man, these scaly androgynes didn't ask to take on the sexual characteristics of both genders; humans are doing it to them. (Where's the freedom to choose?!) And the reason these fish are doubling up could make hash of orthodoxies dating back to the sexual revolution.
– Kathryn Jean Lopez
National Review Online
• It was a little-noticed episode during Barack Obama's boffo foreign trip, but it was the moment most relevant to the American presidential campaign. On the final stop of his trip last Saturday, Obama dropped in on British Prime Minister Gordon Brown during the PM's most stressful weekend since he replaced Tony Blair a year ago.
– E.J. Dionne Jr.
Washington Post
• It is my intention to celebrate a legislative and moral victory – the reauthorization and expansion of America's massive effort to fight global AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria – with an apology. Two months ago, I made a rather vivid attack on a group of United States senators I called "the Coburn Seven," who were blocking consideration of this measure. I was convinced that Tom Coburn – known in the Senate as "Dr. No" for objecting to nearly all spending increases – intended to kill the bill. Then I made the worst mistake of the commentator: actually meeting the object of your scorn.
– Michael Gerson
Washington Post
• If there's one thing to which the world of Democratic economics is utterly unaccustomed, it's agreement. Democrats fight with each other all the time on trade. They disagree about whether to push for balanced budgets or increased spending. Some emphasize growth; others call for greater distributional fairness. So the big news from Barack Obama's meeting last Monday with 20 economic advisers is that there was far more agreement than disagreement about how to fix the nation's deepest fiscal ailments.
– Harold Meyerson
for the Washington Post
