Today's rage seems to be discovery of the Gender Genie, which will take the words written by any author and, almost magically, determine whether they are male or female.

A thought emerged: Who cares about the manliness or femininity of their own writing? What about the Democrats running for president?

The following male Democratic candidates for president - including metrosexual Howard Dean - all came up with female writing scores when the following works were run through the gender machine:

John Kerry Dick Gephardt Howard Dean

Al Sharpton Joe Lieberman John Edwards

Dennis Kucinich Wesley Clark

On the other hand, Ambassador Carol Mosely Braun came out with some masculine speech of her own.

(For what it's worth, Gender Genie said a guy wrote this blog item.)