Male Genital Mutilation How could male infant genital mutilation (euphemistically called “circumcision”) have become such an established ritual? It defies all logic and reason. It comprises non-therapeutic (viz. not medically required) surgery, without consent, to permanently and irreversibly alter an individual’s genitals. Just as we call sex without consent ‘rape’, infant circumcision without consent or […]
Hotel California – was CSUCI the inspiration?
Is our beloved university* the inspiration for the Eagles’ masterpiece “Hotel California”? (* now re-branded as CI (see-eye) to avoid what some thought to be the mildly salacious acronym CSUCI (see-suck-ee) previously adopted for California State University Channel Islands.) There can’t be many people who are not familiar with the Eagles’ opus magnum “Hotel California”, […]