My local newspaper has the following this morning. Rulers rule, people suffer.
-- South Africa sees jump in circumcision deaths:
…39 young men died in the last month after undergoing the rite of passage into manhood….and that more than 120 young men are in hospitals nursing their botched wounds….The procedure is performed outdoors by a traditional leader who uses a spear to remove the foreskin. – Associated Press
Well, Duh!
At my younger son’s bris (that’s the Hebrew word for the Jewish circumcision) 8 days after birth performed by a mohel (that’s the religiously trained and vetted circumcisor), who was also a pediatrician, our guests included several Gentiles. I wish I had a camera aimed at them, as they all together scrunched their eyes and reached for their groin area.
I was walking down the main street in town looking for a watch repair shop. Finally, I saw a store with old watches hanging in the window. I entered, but the man there said he didn’t fix watches. “I’m a mohel. What do you expect me to hang in the window?”
-- Street peddlers eyed in inflation battle:
Venezuela’s government said Tuesday it will make street vendors freeze their prices, threatening violators with fines, confiscations and even jail.
Marxism in the streets of Venezuela is hardly like “power to the people”!
Chavez probably lost at three-card monte.
-- Supreme Court nominee faces another day of questions:
…But we get no answers from her.
Sorry, but the only illustrations I could find are too disrespectful. Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they do make a Supreme Court justice.
P.S.: Thanks to the kind reader who just sent me this illustration:
