From LGF, Anthropologists Defend Female Circumcision:  Dr. Shweder says that many Westerners trying to impose a “zero tolerance” policy don’t realize that these initiation rites are generally controlled not by men but by women who believe it is a cosmetic procedure with aesthetic benefits. He criticizes Americans and Europeans for outlawing it at the same they endorse their own forms of genital modification, like the circumcision of boys or the cosmetic

Great book, a fascinating look at 4000-year-old Caucasian mummies discovered in Western China, near Mongolia.  Tonight on the National Geographic Channel, 9 Eastern. 

Frat House Rapists pursued with Craig’s List, 22 years down the line. Craig’s List? 

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

Let the black Islamophic  humor begin: A female suicide bomber on a mission to kill a Sri Lankan Cabinet minister is seen patiently answering questions in a bustling government office before calmly standing up and detonating the bomb hidden in her bra. Correction: Sri Lanka

Fee Fi Foer offers a special retraction on Beauchamp, due to TNR’s inability to meet in this case its famously stringent standards of proof regarding the material it chooses to publish. Confederate Yankee likens it to a particular strategy in poker.  How they managed to keep a straight face that long is anybody’s guess.  While that microwaves, since ridicule is a dish best served hot, you may wish to visit the Pub, where there is LOLdeBATS

As the case of controversy over the truthiness of The New Republic’s “Baghdad Diarist” was the catalyst for writing “The Big Picture(s),” I note that TNR now states that it can no longer stand by the stories spun by Pvt. Scott Beauchamp. (h/t HotAir) Of course, TNR editor Franklin Foer takes ten 14 pages to make that announcement, including various complaints about conservatives and the Army, while leaving out a few

Chavez Threatens. You want something with specifics?

Speed camera Gatsos destruction in the UK. h/t Reynolds

Nob Hill.  I don’t suppose that’s been observed, yet. Why the heck aren’t Liz Stephans (and that guy she vlogs with) out there giving us the . . . skinny?  Slackers.