Oh, we should all hold a pity party for all those poor, starving, refugees that are steaming into the U.S.

US elastic border stretching with overweight migrants:

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has put out a bid for 42,000 pairs of white 100-percent-cotton men’s briefs — and are in desperate need of super-sizes like 4,800 size “2X-Large,” 4,800 “3X-Large” and “4X-Large,” and 3,600 “5X-Large.”

The nation’s elastic border is stretching even further. The ICE officials say they also need 2,400 pairs of “6X-Large” underwear — a garment that retailers say can fit someone weighing as much as 500 pounds.

http://www.clickhole.com/article/stick-butter-left-out-room-temperature-you-wont-be-368
"This Stick Of Butter Is Left Out At Room Temperature; You Won’t Believe What Happens Next"

Is your internet usage free Lobster?

Politics in the flyover states

Oklahoma candidate insists his opponent has been replaced with a duplicate after being convicted by the 'world court' and hanged in the Ukraine.

Apparently the first amendment isn't observed on college campuses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ceht-3xu84I
#Crid
"Child Circumcision: An Elephant in the Hospital"

Lobster/Tony has been busted.

He wants us to watch a video... A gruesome one, no doubt. (Didn't follow the link; almost never do.)

He's obsessed with his dick.

Woe-kay! Next....

Who is Tony?

Tony is the only other person on this blog who thinks that Harriman, Tennessee is an important city in American thought.

Why did you put my name in the 5:31 comment?

Tony isn't part of this discussion though? Or do you think I'm Tony? The only reason that journal came up is because somewhere in another recent thread YOU linked to that discussion (which I suppose was an argument with Tony? I wasn't following that closely).

I put your name in there as based on your comments in the other thread, I am presuming you are in favor of mutilating the genitals of infant boys.

Could you post a science-and-reason-based rebuttal of the Thymos study instead of obvious logical fallacies and ad hominem? That study is now broadly cited in the scientific literature on circumcision - so the figures aren't in question - over 100 American infants are killed each year by circumcision. You don't seem to state your opinion, but you seem to think this a small sacrifice for some greater good of, I don't even know what, seeing pieces of penises chopped off.

I'm just reading the other thread now, and ha ha, I must admit Tony sounds a lot like me. But no, it's not me, not unless I have additional personalities unbeknownst to myself.

What I suggest is that you write up your scientifically solid, well-reasoned, ground-breaking rebuttal of the Thymos study as a scientific article and submit it to one of the leading scientific journals. I am sure that they will publish it and the scientific community will be amazed at how thoroughly you debunked the article and in such a scholarly manner. I can see it now:

ABSTRACT: It has been suggested that "approximately 117 neonatal circumcision-related deaths (9.01/100,000) occur annually in the United States" [Bollinger, 2010]. However, we have analyzed these figures, and in our findings, Bollinger is clearly obsessed with his dick [lollulz]. Also, the publisher is based in a small town, which clearly debunks Bollinger's figures.
AUTHOR: Crid

Do it, submit it, your arguments are just too powerful, this will stop the entire anti-circumcision movement in its tracks.

PS, do watch the video.

"Oklahoma candidate insists his opponent has been replaced with a duplicate after being convicted by the 'world court' and hanged in the Ukraine."

Guy's watched too many "Soap" reruns.

Another four comments. I can't imagine why you think I owe you an argument about this. GFY.

I was saying to myself "what the fuck are you doing Crid." We've done this before, and as I recall, over 100 posts each time. Yet, some people think that pro-circ and anti-circ are an issue.

> I was saying to myself "what the fuck
> are you doing Crid."

Huh?

> AUTHOR: Crid

WTF? I never "authored" anything, certainly nothing like that. Youse guys is spazzing.

I know. I was wondering why you didn't just link them back to the earlier discussions instead of engaging them. I would but don't know how and am too lazy to find out.

Tony is Lobster is Amy when it comes to snipping dicks.

But DAVE!...

IMPORTANCE!!!

Can't you understand????

!!!

But also, in that other thread, I composed the phrase "people who use violent language to rope others into a narcissistic roil of petty somatic preoccupation."

That's good, rite? Amirite? Of course it wasn't worth all the argument, but still.

Also -

I didn't read it critically because chatter about "critical thinking" is pretentious. I get what I need from reading without putting on a red cape and ooky music and lighting candles and going into a trance first, OK?

C'mon! Dood! That was ok!

Child rearing is not a clean-room industrial process wherein kids are isolated in some pristine condition of soft-skinned obliviousness until they can wake up one morning and compose their lives from a restaurant menu of cost-free options. I want and expect parents to deliver forged, tested personalities at adulthood. Skinned knees and lightly-broken hearts are a part of the deal. Children are committed to all sorts of things, necessarily and unnecessarily, that they might not have chosen for themselves. The point you clowns never seem able to take is that circumcision is the least of them.

Seriously, I think there's some good stuff back there.

Not USEFUL stuff... But if we're going to tilt at windmills, the foil should make a good slice-y noise... Something classy and 1940's-futuristic... A Todd-AO Hollywood sound effect, y'know? SHHHHIIIFFFFFFFFOU:

Maybe Mom caught you with a copy of Playboy, maybe Dad stole your paper route money for beer; but whatever your problem with your parents might be, I don't see why strangers are expected to lubricate your chilly little shaft with their salty, salty tears.

It's funny how we can go to the trouble of saying these things and forget all about them, just because the stakes are so low.

"Seriously, I think there's some good stuff back there."

I know. It was brilliant. To this day I think it was about all that could be said was said.

"Children are committed to all sorts of things, necessarily and unnecessarily, that they might not have chosen for themselves. The point you clowns never seem able to take is that circumcision is the least of them."

That point was brilliant. You coulda been a contender, or a psychologist.

> I think it was about all that could be
> said was said.

And said. And said and said and said again, over and over, to no effect. No line of argument could penetrate too deeply to be resisted by their magical word "objective."

(This deployment of koan-as-arguments is one of those things —which we see a LOT on this blog, hospitable as Amy is to high-school graduates— that clues us in to just how poorly academe has described is treasures and processes to the rest of the world. It's like the hillbilly Christian preachers who call themselves "Doctor," as if two years of shallow Bible study in the un-airconditioned isolation of some Appalachian holler could transform you into a learned man.)

> You coulda been a contender, or
> a psychologist.

…Instead of a blog commenter… Which is what I am… You was my brotha, Dave B. You shoulda looked out for me a little bit....

Also "net."

Clever, right?

Fuckin' powerful.

I've been meaning to try it myself with all sorts of arguments in all sorts of contexts.

Except that's a lie, because I haven't been meaning to do so or even thought about it, 'cause its dumb.