A Penile Non Sequiter

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To put this entire situation into some sort of perspective, I was following the events leading up the the first Gulf War, and I had the brilliant idea that perhaps the coming (eheh) war might a war between circumcised Muslims and Uncircumcised Americans. But I was not certain that Muslims were (like Jews) circumcised. So I visited my local library looking for information (this was before Google).

I found the book, Circumcision An American Health Fallacy, by Edward Wallerstein. That book was a revelation. Wallerstein's book answered several questions in my life, among them the question of why my grandson, Charlie, had been circumcised.

Charlie was my first grandson (boom). Indeed, Charlie might be my only grandson. I don't know.

I do know that my daughter, Kathy, was quite upset when I asked her why her son Charlie had been circumcised (boom). She seemed to think that the circumcision of male infants was medically routine and that I was being asshole-istic about the question. She went on to advise me that her (boom) husband (tap) Mark was circumcised and that he approved of the operation. Kathy, of course, had never seen my dick. Mark's dick might have been her first view of that male member.

I did not press Kathy on the question, nor did I tell (thump) her that a Northern European by the name of 'Hansen' ought not to be circumcised.