9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for March 12, 2006

Transcript:

"Observe, if you will, that particularly bright star, twinkling just above the horizon...The one aloof from the welter of stars about it. That is the star that binds together the system of planets that I humbly call my home. Despite its distance, it has bred a race of men not entirely unlike that of this world." "Oh? In what respects?" "Male pattern baldness; nose and ear hair; rapid-response scratching..." "Do they have testosterone on your planet?" "Oh, yes." "And how does it make your species act?" "Predictably."