For your Friday enjoyment... I've put together a couple links from the blogosphere that made me laugh at loud when I read them.

First from Ann Althouse comes a link to a book review about Irritable Male Syndrome:

Irritable Male Syndrome tries to give biological-imperative arguments for what was once merely inexcusable behavior. There's a reason guys come home after work and all they want to do is play Texas hold 'em on the computer instead of, say, helping with homework or dinner! It's due to their inability to relieve stress!
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Diamond's many suggestions include buying his book, adding more zinc to the diet, decreasing licorice (he says it can reduce testosterone levels by 34 percent), practicing meditation and positive thinking, and avoiding circumcision.

Great, now he tells us.

"I now believe that this practice is one of the physical factors that contribute to IMS," Diamond writes with his typical surety based on no findings whatsoever. "Although there haven't been studies linking circumcision to IMS, there is enough evidence of the effects of early childhood trauma that I believe it's wise for parents to carefully consider the subject before making a decision."

Well that explains everything! Yet one more thing I can blame my parents for... they traumatized me when I was but a wee infant. It's not like I can grow it back you know.

Second comes a link from The Agitator about someone selling plush microbes.

I'm waiting for the plush STD microbes. Just so I can say, "Yeah, I gave my girlfriend the clap last Christmas. She thought it was really cute."

What are they going to think of next?