That’s probably the best video to come out of the Amazing Atheist.
Good point, Clayton. Is there any evidence that circucision does anything positive?
Unrelated:
Nice video on the effectiveness of car seats (someone else posted it elsewhere but it’s worth its own post in here):
Some people have foreskins that become unretractable in puberty. I think it’d be a lot better to be circumcised at birth than as an adult.
Bachmann: Ahmadinejad is a genocidal maniac.
Careful Bachmann…
Does it really matter? Do you think that millions of years of human evolution got it wrong? If we should be suspicious that Nature screwed up on the penis, shouldn’t we be equally skeptical of Nature’s judgment w.r.t. clitorises (sp?), breasts, etc.? A better question is whether it does anything negative and it, in fact, does.
There are claims that it helps with hygiene. Circumcision for hygienic reasons is as ridiculous as amputating people’s arms to keep their armpits clean. Of course it will get dirty if you don’t pull it back and clean it just like your armpits will be nasty if you never lift your arm and soap up underneath.
Non-retracting foreskins are a distinct minority and can be dealt with later, if necessary and desired by the individual. Cutting everyone’s foreskin as a preventive measure is absurd.
As many as 90% of Americans underwent circumcision in the 1960’s. The circumcision rate has significantly dropped since then, fortunately. But those who are still being circumcised are victims of caveman superstitions that have infused the medical establishment.
Clayton -
Remember that evolution is not a destination but a process. We could have said the same thing about evolution 500,000 years ago when we were obviously not as advanced as we are now - and it would be wrong.
That being said, evolution does have a measure of spontaneous order that would likely be butchered by scientist intervention. Messing with humans’ evolutionary process through eugenics is as bad as messing with the private market through regulation. Probably worse… That’s actually a good comparison 
I think…
From what I understand you have more sexual stimulation with foreskin than without, so, for all of us circumsised…we are missing out.
Low Content Recipe
Seitan - AKA Mock Meat, Wheat Meat
1 cup vital wheat gluten
1-2 vegetable bullion cubes
Paprika
Cayenne pepper
Chili powder
Onion powder
Garlic salt
Worcestershire sauce
Sriracha sauce
Tomato paste
…and anything else in your pantry or fridge
Mix one cup of vital wheat gluten with one cup of wet ingredients. I’ve experimented with this in different ways, the most basic being one cup wheat gluten to one cup of water, mix, make in a dough, and let sit covered for 5 minutes. Another way is to add spices to the gluten itself, and add tomato paste, worcestershire sauce, and anything else (like rum). As long as it’s 1:1.
When you make the dough let it sit, it’ll become elastically (unlike becoming doughy), and you can take it and rip/cut it into pieces (one cup should give you 15-20 good size pieces). Now you have your pieces, during this process you will have prepared your broth.
The broth, use a medium sized pot with a good fitting top (make sure very little steam escapes), and boil the water with the vegetable bullion and spices (and rum, if desired). The wheat gluten will absorb what you put in the water, so the more you add the more taste it will have (when the water becomes dark like a broth, that’s the minimum). I use 4 cups of water in a medium sized pot, a larger wider pan will not work as well as the water is spread too thin across the bottom.
When you have the broth put the pieces in, and let it go from a boil to a simmer (a median between the two). You’ll notice after 10-15 minutes that the pieces have become huge! I mean huge! Open the lid, and stir them, they’ll go down and shape. You’ll notice they’ll get larger when in the pot from the heat, but they (sadly) don’t stay that large. Now, you’ll let them sit in this simmering broth for at least an hour. I do 1 hour to 1:30.
Now, take the pieces out, try them, see how they taste. Done yet? Nope!
Get flour ready (add spices to this as well), and bread them, and fry them up.
Now you have fried seitan. If you make it right, it’s delicious It seems like a task, but it’s really not. Preparation should take no longer 15 minutes (as far as making the seitan dough and preparing broth, the rest is just simmering and stirring 10-15 minutes (usually drinking during this), and then the frying.
I’ve been experimenting with this (adding cinnamon to the wheat gluten and flour to fry them in, adding rum, figuring out the spice ratios, etc.) This is sort of a vegan vice, when done right with the right sauces and spices it’s a delicious master piece, and I’ve felt fooled by better cooks than I when eating it (the texture and taste was too good to be true).
Next time I’ll get the directions for nutrional yeast “cheese” sauce (a sauce made from nutritional yeast, flour, rice milk, and spices), but it’s of my girlfriend’s making, so I don’t know the correct proportions, but nutritional yeast suace with seitan is, essentially, the shit.
Messing with ya…
@Wheylous: LOL, nice!
Clayton -
I find it interesting how when people inspect 9/11 theories the burden of proof is always on the person trying to prove their theory but not on the governments story. So when someone asserting a claim about the incident can’t hold up to scientific scrutiny that somehow means that the government did not have knowledge of/ did not conduct the event.
I lol’d!
Also, I completely agree with Clayton re: circumcision male genital mutilation. Under no circumstances would I agree to have any son of mine circumcised mutilated in that way as an infant or a child.
Edit: Ironically enough, the Sun is supposed to start occupying some of the 1%… in about 5 billion years.
Wanted to add this here too:
Study Confirms Ron Paul Blacked Out by Media
Also, I just loved this line from here:
“Since May, he’s been the subject of just 2 percent of campaign stories, says Pew – lagging just behind the powerhouse that is the Rick Santorum campaign.”
His two new ads are quite amazing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EIAVKUqeuQw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=B7RaYbToq7Q
I searched for “block this out” on Google and saw nothing about Ron Paul’s moneybomb on the first page. Coincidence? I think not… LOL DISREGARD THAT-
I think that may have something to do with the fact that the theme is “black this out”. Because I get almost 2 million hits with that, even with the containing quotes included.
Yes, “black”, not “block”
Ron Paul in the Wall Street Journal: Blame the Fed for the Financial Crisis
Lee Doren explains our tax code: