Goldblog reads the new airport security guidelines: Thanks for letting us know, TSA, that the search should be focused on the upper legs and torso. As I've said on numerous occasions, pat-downs that ignore the crotch and the ass are useless. We recently saw in Saudi Arabia the detonation of a rectal bomb, so it … Continue reading “Maddening Stupidity”
"John Gibson never compared Eric Holder to a monkey with a bright blue scrotum," – Huffington Post, February 19, 2009. (Hat tip: Upturned Earth)
Via Dreher, a very readable piece by Tom Chiarella on taking up smoking at the age of 46:
As a nonsmoker, I always figured cigarettes were an indulgence run amok. But there is something tangible about need, even when it’s self-created. It feels good to need. There’s the moral confusion — do I need or do I want?
An infant boy dies after a botched circumcision: According to the Paediatric Child Health article, the boy was "bottlefed and was reported to be doing well when he was circumsized." Five hours later, the parents returned to their family doctor with the infant, who had become "irritable and had blue discoloration" below the belly button. … Continue reading Death By Genital Mutilation
