The Sirens won the day or maybe the pirates did. It all depends on your point of view. Nevertheless, in the interest of equal opportunity, as the Sirens won top billing in my last posting, I'm including one of the pirates for you pirate-loving fans. Overall, there was plenty of excitement, no matter what your preferences are.
Speaking of preferences, what is it that convinces so many "straight" men that being gay is a preference and not something you're born with? I was tortured with dinner conversation again with a cohort insisting that gay guys all had distant dads. I vaguely remember Freud saying something like that but, honestly, don't put much faith in Freud or his scientific methods (or lack thereof). The cohort's argument was that a genetic recessive trait ought not to occur in as large a percentage of the population as 10% and hence it must be environmental. However, it seems that his argument is flawed and that non-fatal recessive traits ought not to be impacted in the same way that fatal genetic factors are; for example blue versus still occur very frequently in spite of brown eyes being dominant. Furthermore, based on the twin studies done a while back, a child being born gay is probably a combination of genetic and in-womb factors. Similar population percentages show up with left-handedness which suggests that in-womb factors strongly affect fetal brain development for many other things as well. That being said, why should it matter anyhow? Why can't people just accept each other as they are? Go figure.
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