Neurobiologists have discovered that sexual orientation can be manipulated back and forth in fruit flies.

People sometimes discuss the implications of a “cure” for homosexuality.

I wonder if someday, 20 or 30 years from now, parents will be able to eradicate potential homosexuality in their fetuses.

I picture a homosexual Children of Men. “The youngest homosexual on earth died today at age 18…”

Then there’ll be nobody left in the gay bars but us bitter old queens.

And then we’ll die, and there’ll be nothing on Broadway but Stomp, and eventually the whole country will look like Kansas.

According to a new poll, only 36 percent of New Yorkers view Governor Spitzer favorably.

I guess I must be part of the minority that still likes him.

The most important thing in New York state government right now is to break up the antidemocratic power structure, where Joseph Bruno and Sheldon Silver control and conceal the entire agenda and ordinary senators and assembly members are not allowed to deviate. The system is rotten, and, unlike the somnolent and complacent Pataki, Spitzer is making a good-faith attempt to shake things up and fix them. No, it’s not going to pretty, but it needs to be done.

Has Spitzer made missteps? Yes. But he can learn from them. I still think his overriding goal is a noble one.

If you have time, read this lengthy but informative profile of Spitzer from last week’s New Yorker.

Here’s a little thing I’ve discovered:

When you’re making dinner for yourself — or on any occasion where you’re going to be taking some food from a pot or serving dish and putting it onto your own personal plate — and you’re planning on having seconds, it helps to take a smaller-than-average amount of food for your first serving. That way, when you go back for seconds, you get the psychological satisfaction of having seconds, but you’re actually eating less food.

I think it has something to do with the fact that the first few bites of a tasty meal are more satisfying than the later bites.