World in the Making

Whack a Mohel

When following up the story that some public health officials in the U.S. favor
circumcising all new-born boys in the country, I learned that, believe it or not, there's an organization whose mission is to oppose the practice and discredit it.

Prelude To A Bris

Some public health officials in the U.S. and other domestic "experts" think it might be a good idea, in fighting the "epidemic" of AIDS, to require that all baby boys in the country be circumcised.

NASA's In The Cold, Cold Ground

A funny parody of the documentaries of Ken Burns, producer of The Civil War and Baseball, posted at YouTube.

Writer Steve Sailer thinks Burns cares about nothing so much as including stories about African-Americans, however slight their importance to his subject. Sailer makes a case for his view in a very entertaining column at Taki's Magazine.