How right he is. People aspiring to run the country should be able to sort out the matter of whether an item is debated at a political party’s conference. That was the view yesterday of Justice William Nicholas in the New South Wales Supreme Court when granting an injunction to a Liberal Party member that stops this weekend’s state party conference going ahead.

It really was an embarrassing setback for the party’s controllers. The Liberals clearly have some major internal disputes of the kind that are bedevilling the US Republicans.

Wayne’s interest justified. Treasurer Wayne Swan is quite right to be giving a view on the political situation in the United States just as Crikey is in covering the presidential election so thoroughly. Who runs the US and how is probably far more important for all of us than who wins a poll in our own country.

The shrinking male member — feminazis to blame. I’m surprised that Andrew Bolt has not already featured this. His American talkshow host peer Rush Limbaugh yesterday lashed out at feminists — who he called “feminazis” — over the news that male genitalia are shrinking.

The conservative radio host pointed, reports The Raw Story, to an Italian study that found that the average male p-nis was 10% smaller than 50 years ago. Researchers cited weight gain around the waist, smoking, stress and environmental pollutants as factors.

But Limbaugh wasn’t buying that explanation. “I think it’s feminism,” he declared. “If it’s tied to the last 50 years — the average size of [a male’s] member is 10% smaller than 50 years — it has to be the feminazis, the chickification and everything else.

“Give ’em time and they’ll blame Bush. But air pollution versus feminazis? Ha!”

Listen to the audio from The Rush Limbaugh Show via Media Matters, broadcast September 20, 2012.

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