Arriving a little too late to save Gavin Newsom from embarrassment, San Franciscan Lloyd Schofield wants to put a measure on the city ballot to ban circumcision, which he claims causes all sorts of psychological, physical and sexual trauma.

(I’d ask my two sons but I don’t think they remember the event itself and they’re still way too young to find out what the long term implications are.)

SF Weekly’s Snitch blog reports this today, along with the fact that Mr. Schofield also wants to restore foreskins. Which could lead to a lot of messy medical dumpster diving, unless you kept yours in a box. Snitch makes an unfortunate comparison between the circumcision measure and this month’s Happy Meal ban. But this is manny, not nanny legislation. We won’t go there.

There’s also the required pun about “tip of the iceberg.” Hah.

They didn’t publish the old joke about the guy who needs his watch fixed, sees a store with a big clock in the window and goes in. “I’d like my watch fixed,” he says. “Mr., I don’t fix watches,” says the proprietor. “I’m a mohel” (circumcisionist in the Jewish tradition). “So why put the clock in your window?” “Mr., if you were me, what would you put in the window?”

Mr. Shofield should steal his campaign slogan for this potentially painful debate from the guy who refused a pat-down search at the San Diego airport Saturday and his recording of the incident went viral.

“If you touch my junk, I’m gonna have you arrested.”

That’s the long and short of it.