If you object to circumcision and you're straight, sometimes people will try to insult you by suggesting that only gay people are so concerned with their penises.

There's nothing either gay or straight about wanting bodily integrity for yourself, for wishing that a useful and sensitive part of your body hadn't been mangled in the name of religion, pseudoscience, and social conformity.

I am fucking sick of guys who mock you, call you gay, and don't take this issue seriously.

People say a foreskin gets smelly.

Your armpits get smelly. Should we cut off your arms?

The American Academy of Pediatrics needs to step forward into the 20th century, where we've developed something called regular bathing.

There's a criminal case going on here in Ohio involving some Amish people who forcibly cut off the beards of some other Amish men. The prosecutors are trying for a hate crimes conviction by proving that the victims suffered willfully inflicted bodily injury. "There is no question that the forcible removal of a person's hair is, in and of itself, disfiguring..." argued the prosecutor.

If the forcible removal of facial hair, a renewable resource, is a disfiguring assault, then why is routine infant circumcision still legal?

People have been prosecuted and convicted of assault for doing far less permanent damage to another human being. By any reasonable standard, infant circumcision should be illegal. It's not a medical procedure. It's a barbaric religious ritual now done for reasons of pointless conformity.

While the Fukushima disaster may have increased the background radiation by a small amount, this isn't the end of the story on radiation exposure from that event. Fukushima also released radioactive particles that, when inhaled or ingested by humans, will expose their tissues to ionizing radiation for the rest of their lives. This is why you can't compare the exposure from events like international flights, which are distributed across your entire body and are transient in nature, to the total effects of a nuclear disaster. Some of the exposures from Fukushima were and will be much more than tolerable, transient increases in the background radiation a la living in Denver. For many people, the hot particles they inhaled or ingested will stay with them forever and will lead to significant cell damage and cancer.

How is it a joke? Day in and day out I'm the only one using my computer. If I share files with someone, it's through a server, and not directly from my computer. The only time I deal with file permissions is when I'm fighting against them blocking my access.

That said, Haiku has plans to adopt multiuser stuff. But the lack of it doesn't impact me in any way.

You have the wrong username, because I don't think you CAN read. Carl Sagan was a code name. I wasn't used in public. And last I checked you have the freedom to express negative opinions about buttheads all you want.

Word game == lying

Remember that 1/3 of our nation was against the revolution and 1/3 didn't care. A small, vocal minority can change history.

What about the x-rays penetrating window glass?