Urges profession that cuts off dicks so they’ll fit better in a bikini.

Chinese hospitals introduce hands-free automatic sperm extractor.
h/t Ed Driscoll

“So no hockey stick there.”

But we don’t give them two battalions of French troops and a road map to Russia.

A man doesn’t need to have his penis removed to legally become a woman, according to new order from the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal.
In a 95-page decision issued April 11, Sheri Price, a vice-chair with the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, gave the Ontario government 180 days to “revise the criteria for changing sex designation on a birth registration.” Unless provincial authorities mount an appeal, Ontario will become the first Canadian jurisdiction to toss out genital surgery as a pre-requisite for a legal sex change.

This makes perfect sense, actually. Removing the penis doesn’t turn a man into a woman any more than a ruling from a panel of bat shit crazy bureaucrats does.
Via

“We’ve entered a new low at City Hall. An adult entertainer was just permitted to perform for the Licensing and Standards committee.”

(h/t Dan)

… why can’t I sell a kidney?

h/t Edie

From “most powerful nation mankind has ever known” to “loses dick measuring contest to Canada”.
(I’d normally insert a “hat tip” here, but I think I’ve provided quite enough material already.)

Hear my prayer.
h/t John.

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Crazy – Public health authorities across Canada are struggling to address the growing popularity of body modifications such as splitting one’s tongue like a snake’s and surgically altering ears to make them elf-like and pointy…
Not Crazy – Sex reassignment surgery in Canada: Province-by-province breakdown of SRS coverage

Glenn Reynolds – “Given the predilections of our political class, you’d think this would be a higher priority for them.”

“It looks exactly like a giant dried bulls penis.”

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Born again Republican!
Update – Weiner’s Penis Photo Dispute To Be Settled In Small Claims Court

The IMF’s money (do you really think he paid for it himself?) not at work:

Handcuffed: Strauss-Kahn does the ‘perp walk’

Predate: Overlooked this from Kate:

The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
… and socialist perverts…

Update thought: Never would have happened in Canada, including moving fast enough to arrest the bugger (in the generic, not sexual, sense) at the airport.

…with both barrels. Ms Mallick:

Canada’s cold new dawn
Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper is our version of George W Bush, minus the warmth and intellect

…
What happens now is the full-scale Americanisation of Canada…
The Evangelist Christian right is at the heart of Harper’s Conservative party, and after years of being shushed, it will now demand an end to a number of things, including abortion rights. Canada has no law against abortions, and they are available free.
Corporate taxes will be cut almost immediately, Bush-style. Political financing laws will change – parties now get money for each vote – but this will end under the Conservatives, who will have a huge advantage in terms of the amount they can solicit in corporate donations [which are now illegal; the Conservatives have in fact no plan to change this, just to force parties to raise money from their own supporters].
Harper himself is a famously strange man…

Jonathan Kay:

…an open letter to The Guardian about Heather Mallick
…a March 28 Toronto Star Mallick column claimed that Harper’s government is planning to “hunt down its enemies” in a manner that “verges on the Stalinist.” She also claimed — without any evidence — that Harper would eliminate all “government safety standards for food and medicine”; that Harper wants to put “guns on the street,” and institute a “system of academic McCarthyism.” Mallick’s May 3 Guardian column (“Canada’s cold new dawn”) is written in this same spirit — particularly the last three paragraphs, which bear no resemblance to reality — and also reflect Mallick’s odd and disturbing habit of casting hateful references on those who don’t happen to live in large coastal cities.
This is part of a trend, because many parts of Mallick’s Guardian columns are essentially interchangeable slurs against what she insists, without any evidence, is a racist, misogynistic Canadian government populated by, and for, fat individuals who are simpletons because they don’t live in Toronto…
…Canadian progressives also have been outraged by Mallick — because of the consistently hateful attitudes she has exhibited toward people who are poor or come from rural backgrounds. In 2008, for instance, she wrote a CBC column analyzing the popularity of Sarah Palin among “white trash” (her words) voters: “Palin has a toned-down version of the porn actress look favoured by this decade’s woman … Bristol has what is known in Britain as the look of the teen mum, the ‘pramface.’ Husband Todd looks like a roughneck; Track, heading off to Iraq, appears terrified. They claim to be family obsessed while being studiously terrible at parenting. What normal father would want Levi ‘I’m a fuckin’ redneck’ Johnson prodding his daughter?”..

You don’t know where it’s been.

QOTW…

“So was this a surprise, a dad at 63?”

If you watch the video through to the next segment, the issue is explored in more depth. “What are the ethical issues around parents having kids so late in life?”
Married elderly males have been fathering children for millennia, married gay males for about 15 minutes. Yet, the ethics of the latter are apparently settled, while the former are still a matter for debate. Odd, that.

And divers other manifestations of reasons for…

The accelerating decline of Mother Corpse, radio version

…
Host Sook-Yin Lee achieved a truly great moment in postmodern irony. She asked some nice old black guy she was interviewing whether he considered her a lady. He replied that he certainly did unless evidence otherwise came to his attention, for instance that a woman was, say, truly sexually loose. Ms Lee ragged him about this for some time (what a hoot) knowing full well that the fellow did not know this: “Sook-Yin Lee Funny Porn Movie Shortbus”…