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Guidance issued recently by the Equality and Human Rights Commission for public bodies suggseted it may be illegal for any school to require girls to wear skirts as part of their uniform, since this could discriminate against transsexual pupils.

It warned of legal action if uniforms were deemed “gender specific”.

Nurse Caroline Petrie was suspended after offering to say a prayer for an elderly lady on her ward. The tribunal heard that the patient was not offended. Ms Petrie said she “trying to do is help”. Andrea Williams, founder and director of the Christian Legal Centre, said people with traditional values were being silenced “in the name of equality and diversity policies”. Ms Petrie was later reinstated.

Political Correctness is rotting the bones of our culture.

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Spain is not what once it was.

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The little porker that could.

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The devices can be found currently in the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi, Bankshop in Reutlingen, Germany, The Westin Palace in Madrid, and the Orio al Serio International Airport, and they’ll be hitting Las Vegas and Florida sometime this year.

You have to distrust the motives of people who will give you real gold and take dirty paper or electrons. What do they know that you don’t?

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Forward, Comrades, into a brave new world!

(AlGore, eat your heart out.)

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Well, that’s all right, then.

Steve Sailer has a great deal of fun with this one.

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The obvious implication is that black students are much more likely to be disruptive than white students. (Insert disquisition about dysfunctional ‘gangsta culture’ and that culture’s antipathy to ‘acting white’ here.)

Of course, the unspoken assumption of the writer (and, no doubt, his intended Crustian audience) is that there is some kind of dastardly racism going on there. It couldn’t possibly be that the students actually deserved the suspensions, oh no.

As Steve Sailer points out, you can’t parody this crap because it parodies itself.

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I would have guessed it meant ‘fear of not having any homosexuals around’ but I would have been wrong.

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Jarhead Red is a wine on a mission to support the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation. True to its name, Jarhead Red boasts a robust character with rich black fruit flavors and a finish that doesn’t quit. This is the 10th vintage of Jarhead Red since the inaugural vintage of 1999.

I find the entire concept absolutely delightful.

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Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty, who lost the Democratic nomination in Tuesday’s primary, won the Republican nomination as a write-in candidate, the District board of elections said.

This is just a crazy year in politics.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

Bats can be identified by their different regional dialects, researchers in Australia have discovered.

Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees.

Gotta love Australians.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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In the culture at large, there is something of an obsession with learning the sex of babies in the womb, a fascination that can get pretty creepy and overdone. Some parents are having what they call “sex parties,” where they reveal the sex of their baby in some cutesy way. Websites offer reams of advice on how to make “creative gender announcements” (like getting the tell-tale sonogram put onto t-shirts and sent to friends as a gift, or having “It’s going to be a [Whatever]!” proclaimed on the JumboTron at a major sports event).

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Toymaker Martin Kittsteiner is hoping children will go potty for his new invention – a family of soft toys who all have psychiatric illnesses. The toys – suffering from everything from bipolar disorder to acute depression – come with their own medical history, a referral letter and a treatment plan. Patients include Dub the turtle with severe depression, Sly the snake who suffers from terrifying hallucinations, Dolly the sheep with a personality disorder and a crocodile which has a irrational terror of water. Martin sells the dolls for £25 each from his website www.parapluesch.de.

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Yale, of course, has too much taste to indulge in this sort of vulgar enterprise.

I suspect that this is a startup run out of a dorm room in Eliot House.

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Great. Let’s have him blow up Fidel Castro.

(I can see Fidel and Raoul watching the MSNBC reporter come in and muttering to each other “Let’s have some fun with this guy.”)

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Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know.

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Not a headline that you read every day.

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A number of Al Azhar ulema expressed their opposition to building a mosque near [where] the events of September 11 [occurred], convinced that it is “a conspiracy to confirm a clear connection between the strikes of September [11] and Islam.” Dr. ‘Abd al-Mu’ti Bayumi, a member of the Islamic Research Academy [of Al Azhar] told Al Masry Al Youm that he rejects the building of any mosque in this area [Ground Zero], because the “devious mentality” desires to connect these events [of 9/11] with Islam, though he maintains that Islam is innocent of this accusation. Instead, it is a “Zionist conspiracy,” which many are making use of to harm the religion. Likewise, Dr. Amna Nazir, professor of doctrine and philosophy at Al Azhar, expressed her rejection that a mosque be built near the World Trade Center, saying: “Building a mosque on this rubble indicates bad intention — even if we wished to shut our eyes, close our minds, and insist on good will. I hope it is a sincere step, and not a new conspiracy against Islam and Muslims.”

Islam is the new Communism.

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I don’t know what the Russian word for hubris is, but these folks have got it.

Presumably we can expect the heirs of the Romanovs to weigh in at some point.

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Certainly a more productive use of one’s time.

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In the frenzy to get kindergartners into the top private schools, parents are now hiring consultants to coach their children on the art of the interview, which these exclusive schools term “playdates.”

It’s hard out there for the Crust.

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Hand him 50 feet of hemp and let him chew on that for a while.

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The Dutch Royal Library is currently making available online all newspapers from the Second World War, which includes Nazi propaganda. Now the Dutch department of Justice has advised the library not to make digital versions of these publications, because it is possible that the Public Prosecutor might accuse the Royal Library of distributing publications that incite hatred.

This is too absurd for words. Government bureaucrats are like dim-witted robots. Anything that fits their target parameters is attacked, whether it makes sense or not. Eventually we’ll wind up like the Nazis, with Goverment Agency A at war with Government Agency B, and the ordinary citizen trampled in the ensuing riot.

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Citing text messages she sent her boyfriend shortly before the incident, Montana prosecutors contend that Justine Winter’s crash at 85 mph into an oncoming vehicle was a deliberate suicide attempt. Winter, who faces trial on homicide charges in the deaths of Erin Thompson, the woman she ran into, and Thompson’s 13-year-old son, has now sued Thompson’s estate as well as the construction company that built the interstate overpass where the accident occurred.

Well, what has she got to lose? And, considering some of the way such suits have gone these days, is it so far-fetched?

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Unfortunately, I don’t have a ‘coals to Newcastle’ category.

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A groom accidentally killed three relatives at his wedding in Turkey when he fired into the air with an assault rifle in celebration, according to reports.

Well, you know, these things happen.

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“I first went to the health clinic, but it was closed. So I rang the medical help line and they told me that it shouldn’t be closed, so I went to emergency and sat there,” the man named only as Jonas told the newspaper.

After an hour-long wait in a treatment room, he lost patience and proceeded to sew up his own wound.

But hospital staff were not as impressed by his initiative and have reported the man on suspicion of criminal dispossession (egenmäktigt förfarande) for having used hospital equipment without authorization.

But hospital staff were not as impressed by his initiative and have reported the man on suspicion of criminal dispossession (egenmäktigt förfarande) for having used hospital equipment without authorization.

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Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know.

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Conservatives have long said that the day would come when liberal judges declare the Constitution unconstitutional. That happened today, when a gay federal judge in San Francisco, relying on the opinions of mostly-gay “expert” witnesses, ruled that an amendment to the California constitution, which was adopted in perfectly proper fashion by a substantial majority of voters, is “unconstitutional.” In this context, unconstitutional means “unpopular with me and my friends.”

As a legal matter, Judge Walker’s decision is a bad joke. It will be appealed, of course, but the outcome of the appeal will be determined by politics, not law. I think it is safe to assume that anyone nominated to the Supreme Court by a Democratic President is explicitly or implicitly committed to the proposition that gay marriage is a constitutional right. If you think that is bizarre, stop voting for Democratic politicians.

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As any Tomb Raider fan would know, Ms. Croft was conceived in Derby, so the voluptuous star was a natural choice, topping an online poll to choose the road name.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that China had a pole-dancing school.

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A popular dating website exclusively for beautiful people has branched out to provide a fertility forum aimed at creating beautiful babies.

Hmm.

“It’s completely democratic – if you secure enough positive votes, you are accepted; if not, you are shown the door,” said Mr Hodge, who manages from Los Angeles the website launched in the United States in 2005.

In other words, the world’s biggest fraternity/sorority. Hmm.

In a major departure for the BeautifulPeople.com founders, even ugly people are allowed to subscribe to the new forum, browsing for attractive sperm and egg donors to ultimately improve the gene pool.

Well, it seems to me that, if you breed beautiful people to ugly people, you just get more ugly people — perhaps not as ugly, but still….

“But everyone – including ugly people – would like to bring good-looking children in to the world, and we can’t be selfish with our attractive gene pool.”

How generous of them. Now, you could just not allow the ugly people to breed…? Oh, wait, they already tried that.

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“We know that if you have veterans in one place where they can befriend each other and talk to each other. You know when you’ve gone through similar things you need to share it. I don’t care whether you are a policeman or a fireman or a veteran or by chance a member of Congress,” the California senator said. “[Democratic Rep.] Maxine [Waters] and I could look at each other and roll our eyes. We know what we are up against. And it is hard for people who are not there to understand the pressure and the great things that go along with it and the tough things that go along with it.”

I loved the incident where she chewed out some Colonel or General for calling her ‘Ma’am’ rather than ‘Senator’. Now, I would have waited until she finished and then said, ‘Whatever you say, sir.’ And I would probably have gotten fired. But it would totally have been worth it.

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The end times are near.

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In what appears to be an attempt on Amruthavalli’s part to understand suicide by hanging, the housewife hanged herself from the ceiling of her family home in Madivala on July 7.

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I really started losing my enthusiasm for this “Year of the Woman” poltical talk when The Susan B. Anthony List basically turned on me.  Well, not me exactly, since, as an anti-choice political fundraising machine they were never really going to be my sort of folk.  But something happened a few weeks ago that really started to make me lose my enthusiasm for this alleged women’s wave, be it liberal or conservative.

The Susan B. Anthony Group started endorsing male candidates.

The horror!

I guess the response of the Modern Feminist™ to sexism is … sexism?

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You want scary? We got scary.

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Be the first on your block to have the Führer’s face on your jammies.

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A Briton who was recognised as the world’s first genderless person has lodged an appeal after losing the official designation of gender neutrality.

Norrie was born a man and underwent gender reassignment surgery 20 years ago to become a woman. But doctors recently said because Norrie had stopped taking female hormones several years ago, they were unable to determine gender.

Whether it’s got a Y chromosome would seem to settle the question, but apparently not.

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Clarence K. Carter is a former Indiana prisoner and aspiring lawyer who wants to become a lawyer without going to law school, which is required by Indiana law. So Carter is doing what you might imagine: he’s suing Indiana, claiming the law requiring law-school graduation is unconstitutional.

I’m sorry, but as a law school graduate I find this incredibly amusing. It’s all about status, of course; that’s why the degree that used to be Bachelor of Laws is now Doctor of Jurisprudence.

So far, the state isn’t budging on its requirement. “Our position is that the Rule 13 educational requirement is not only lawful but also is a reasonable precondition for those desiring to enter the legal profession,” said Bryan Corbin, the attorney general’s spokesman. “We intend to vigorously defend this rule from the plaintiff’s challenge.”

But Carter and his lawyer are going to keep arguing that Carter deserves the chance to take the test. “Who’s more qualified to practice law?” Carter said. “The person who graduated from law school but failed the bar exam, or the person who didn’t go to law school but passed?”

An excellent point. If law school qualified you to practice law, why have a bar exam?