Randy Cassingham's Blog

Posted by Dee, Washington DC on November 21, 2011:

Baby got back, indeed!

Posted by Mike from Dallas on November 21, 2011:

Just seems to be that there should be something criminal about anyone who PAYS for such "treatment" to be done to them. Used to be, Darwinian Selection would resolve such problems.

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That's still the law: people have died from such treatments. -rc

Posted by Maureen, Chester NH on November 21, 2011:

WHY on earth would anyone want to do this to themselves? If my practitioner looked like this, I would have run the other way. lol

Posted by Steve in Santa Fe, NM on November 21, 2011:

I did a double take when I saw the photo here... because I stumbled across it earlier today at a most unlikely source of "hard" news: The Weekly World News (The World's Only Reliable News)!

The home of Bat Boy, Alien Mummies, and "Tim Tebow Converts to Judaism" actually covered this story as well. Randy, do you ever rely on WWN for any of your weird but true stories? ;-)

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Well, you know I don't, but I'm wondering about your reading habits now! :-) -rc

Posted by Barry - Renton, WA on November 21, 2011:

"It took months for investigators to catch up to HIM, but when HE was arrested for practicing medicine without a license..."

Is the pronoun incorrect, or did HE also inject himself in the chest?

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Ya hafta read it all, including "... officers were so shocked by his appearance, they took full-length mug shots. It's not that Morris is a man who looks like a woman, but rather...." -rc

Posted by Barbara, GA on November 21, 2011:

Why in Hell would anyone want an ass that big?

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Beats me, but there's clearly a market for it! -rc

Posted by Bruce, SC on November 21, 2011:

I'm surprised he's still alive, considering all the injections s/he must have self-administered.

Posted by David, Canada on November 21, 2011:

When I read this story earlier today in the paper, they referred to Morris as someone who "was born a man but now identifies as a woman" and used female pronouns to refer to her throughout the story, including in the headline. I'm curious, Randy, if your source used male pronouns and used the phrase "man who looks like a woman", and if your source used female pronouns, would you use them for her?

(BTW, I"m a believer that if a person identifies as a particular gender, then we should at least respect their choice and refer to them as that gender. I'm not saying that you were the one who didn't pay them that respect, I suspect it was more your source and that you were unaware that she is someone who "refers to herself as a woman" rather than being a "man who [just] looks like a woman".)

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I generally also use the person's preference, but with keeping the name "Ron" it wasn't clear what that preference was. The (female) newspaper reporter avoided pronouns (preferring "Morris"), but looking at the source article again, I do now see two uses of "her", which I didn't notice while writing. -rc

Posted by Greg M, Milwaukee on November 21, 2011:

"Stupid is as stupid does...." Some really smart dude said that.

Posted by bandit, Albuquerque on November 21, 2011:

Good Golly, Miss Molly!

I was impressed (ahem) by the witches brew ingredients. Simply staggering.

I wonder why the investigators took so long to catch up with "him". I will grant you the result is not what one would expect.

Good tagline, BTW.