Reason number 439 that I’m a better columnist than a blogger: I forget to post things ahead of time. I’ve known for almost a week that this week I’d do the Monday Sex in the News instead of Tuesday, but did I think to tell you? No. It’s not that I don’t love you. It’s not a deliberate plot on my part to keep you confused and guessing. It’s simply that my writing rhythm is too geared toward a weekly deadline (still!) and that I am not used to writing about things I’m a-gonna do, versus things I (or others) have done and had time to think about.

I am better at alerting people to things via Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, btw, if you want to follow/friend me there. (I’m “regina lynn” on all of them, or search ginalynn@gmail.com.)

And now, the news!

In good, groundbreaking news, a federal district court ruled it unconstitutional to discriminate against a candidate who interviews as a bio-male but accepts the job as a transgendered female. I don’t know why I’m still surprised that these kinds of things are even at issue — that people argue that the law prohibiting gender discrimination in hiring should not apply to transgendered people (huh? why not?) or that it would matter that someone looking for a job would also be in the midst of a sex change.

After that, we had a bunch of oddballs.

A 60-year-old Japanese widower disposed of his love doll by wrapping her in a sleeping bag and dumping her in the woods, where hikers stumbled upon her and reported the “corpse” to the police.

A South African couple died Friday when they were having sex on the railroad tracks and got run over by a train.

Birth control campaigns jump on the “fight global warming” (presumably hybrid) wagon, noting that preventing unwanted pregnancies can help save polar bears. Not to mention saving young folks from becoming parents before they’re ready.

And in Georgia, a couple caught having sex in their car took off at speed, rather than roll down the window when the officer tapped on the glass. They didn’t get away unscathed though; they fled the scene after wrapping their car around a utility pole.