FOR once, let’s get serious here.

There’s crisis everywhere, earthquakes, tsunamis, Joavan Fernandez. In fact the Lord was almost forced to return for the Second Coming last May 21 because of our wicked ways. We would be remiss in our duty as citizens of the world if we keep making fun of things. So for today, allow me to write about a topic of extreme global importance: the foreskin.

And not just the foreskin but also circumcision, the act of removing this poor little loose fold of skin from its base attachment, the penis. The relevance here is that it’s summer, the time of year when civic organizations and politicians get frantic about cutting foreskins off little boys’ penises in the slums as if it’s Erection Day tomorrow. Yes, I said Election Day, read it again.

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Thanks to friend and former Sun.Star colleague Aledel Gonzalez for sending me the following report.

KINSHASA (Reuters) – Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.  >> Read article here

Regular visitors should know by now that we don’t take things seriously here… well, at least not all the time. If you expect to read some “serious” stuff here, you have the right to be disappointed. (Click ‘insoymada’ in the pages section to know that I’ve been warning you all the time).

I’m adding a new category here dedicated to the funny, the absurd and the plainly outrageous. These are stories that pop up whenever I click-search ‘sicko.’ If these stories remind you of your own eccentricities, I’ll leave you to take it from there, fix yourself and contribute to saving the St. Vincent Pygmy Rice Rat from extinction.

Let’s start with this one: http://prickasso

IT all started with this one short line in my spam box: “Hi Insoymada. Your partner will be calling you ‘BIG BOY…’”

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