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How many homeless shelters does your town have that are "intended specifically for transgender youth"? If you live outside New York, the answer almost certainly is a big goose egg. Here in the Big Apple, on the other hand, one of the city's leading newspapers regards it as newsworthy that there is only one. In case you're wondering what "transgender" means, here is what we took away from the story: The residents of this shelter are young men who go to extraordinary lengths to appear as if they were women. They wear dresses, high heels and feminine makeup; they carry...

This morning I posted as a comment the presence in the Exchange Control Office’s official website of a page which describes a prophecy by self-described prophet Cindy Jones. Many people have written to me about it because it took them a while to realize that this is actually an official page where individuals and companies register to obtain foreign currency at the official exchange rate. First of all, an explanation, the presence of this page can only be termed as bizarre in a country which is mostly Catholic and where there is supposed to be a clear separation of church...