This is enough to make anyone flip their wig:
DRESDEN, Germany (Reuters) – Bald men in Germany have no entitlement to state support for toupees, a court ruled Wednesday.
Throwing out a legal challenge by a bald 46-year-old man, the court said the state was not discriminating against men even though health insurance covers the cost of wigs for women.
“In contrast to women, the involuntary loss of hair among men is common and accepted as nothing out of the ordinary,” the court ruled, rejecting the suit from the man who said he suffered because of his baldness.
He filed the suit when the state health insurance system refused his claim for a 440 euro ($530) toupee.
That’s enough to get your dandruff up.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.