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Saturday, Nov 7, 2009
and a bad day for anti-circumcision fanatics who care more about their own foreskin insecurities.
It's obvious why a small but very active group of anti-circ zealots spend so many hours on the internet peddling misleading or false information about a tiny piece of skin. They don't give a damn about significantly reducing HIV rates in Africa. What they care most about is this: As long a significant portion of people are circumcised, those who still have foreskins will be (unfairly) stigmatized as dirty and unhealthy. The bitterness and hurt a small minority of these men (and some of their wives and mothers) feel is obvious. Behind the happily married 60-year-old grandfather who spends hours a day on the internet as part of the anti-circ echo chamber, is the 18-year-old boy (from long ago) who was afraid of being rejected by a girl for having a foreskin. Just let it go already.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The Maine fight was supposed to be the dress rehearsal for repealing California's Prop. 8 -- but gay marriage lost
Once one obtains Seriousness credentials in the Washington media, they are irrevocable no matter one's conduct.
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