Got a laugh from this. Hope you will, too. Nearly posted this under 'Biodiversity'. Ha! Personally, speaking as a proud Buckeye, I am OK with the sexuality of Aesculus glabra. http://www.theotherpaper.com/blogs/thats_so_gay/article_3d7e5514-c13b-11e1-9962-001a4bcf887a.html (Hmm...the fact that the Ohio State University mascot's historical namesake was an assassin seems to be overlooked.) Here is a link to the letter to the editor written by Jim Flechtner (see last entry on page, entitled 'So What About Carnations?'): http://www.thecourier.com/opinion/2012/Jun/06/ar_let_060612.asp?d=060612,2012,Jun,06&c=let And finally, if you can stand it, here is a link to an NPR article which leads the reader to believe that Mr. Flechtner's letter was of a nature satirical: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...keye-for-being-bisexual-we-now-have-hoax-no-3 Seems to me that the man could find better employ in his retirement years than to cast aspersions on this regal member of the Hippocastanaceae!
