Just back from Iowa, and leaving tomorrow for two cross-country trips these next two weeks. Upstate New York and Vermont this week, and then after coming home for a day, Pennsylvania and Texas next week. With all this travel, I should be running for president or something!

For now, another news item demonstrating how backward sex and sex education are in our country. Zizi Sexuel features a "love-o-meter," a "pubermatic," and a pinball machine in which the balls are tiny sperm racing for an egg.

Still worth dreaming that the United States will be this open... someday!

Despite the diversity of the Democratic Party's presidential candidates, glass ceilings remain unshattered in this country. During my daily read of the fabulous Crooks and Liars website, I learned about a high school in Kansas that barred a woman from refereeing a boys' basketball game because a woman "could not have authority over males." Check out the video from the local news. Never mind that the NBA has already allowed female referees; Thomas Frank's book title remains as relevant as ever: What's the Matter with Kansas?