There is are also control group issues with a lot of the circumcision/HIV studies. Many of them require adults males to undergo circumcision, thus restricting their access to sexual activity for several weeks during the study period. The uncircumcised men in the control group would have no such restriction, so of…

"Clipping toenails, lancing boils, cutting hair, circumcision, removing warts"

The umbilical cord detachs naturally within up to a week or so after birth. The foreskin does not.

"part of an infant's genitals", I mean.

Unlike circumcision, vaccinations are overwhelmingly endorsed by most major world health agencies and do not involve the painful, permanent removal of an infant's genitals.

The Book of Eli was pretty terrible, although I was certainly amused by the idea of a blind Denzel Washington repeating the words "kill [whatever] animal, sprinkle it's blood around, cut it up and burn it" for about a half hour or so as he dictates The Book of Leviticus.

"…and the sad old magician is reloading his suitcase"
"AND THE ONE-LEGGED MIDGET-"

Stephanie Meyer is a terrible author but it is not without precedent. Half-vampires show up with some frequency in vampire fiction, including some decent stuff.

Whoops.
I thought I only did that once.

Whoops.
I thought I only did that once.

Most popular baby names for 2010
Isabelle and Jacob. I shit you not.

Most popular baby names for 2010
Isabelle and Jacob. I shit you not.

Actors killing it
- The dude playing Robb. He was fine up until now, but this episode was definitely his best. I could pretty easily believe that this green kid would be able to get badasses like the Greatjon to follow him (which, quite frankly, I didn't quite believe in the book).

SPOILERS, NITPCIK:

Cersei was never particularly effective. The only people she has really outmanuevered are Ned and Tyrion, the former because she took advantage of the fact that he didn't want her kids to be executed, the latter because he was incapacitated for awhile after fighting for her worthless shit of a son. I guess Sansa Stark…

Jaime does change a little bit - he definitely learns some humility and respect for people not named Jaime or Cersei Lannister by the end of Book 3, and he even manages to kick his Cersei addiction in Book 4. That said, he's still willing to murder inconvenient children, so he's closer to the man he originally was…

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Sam can be pretty annoying in the books at times, but a lot of people's favorite characters probably wouldn't be much use to anyone either were they in his situation. One of the themes that I read from the books is how consistently the Westeros system (and by extension, any ruling system based so heavily on the…

Louis CK on Sarah Palin
I assume this is the rant that will appear in the movie.