Every now and then, but far too often for my liking and licking of my bruised ego, I come across in my travels around the interwebs something that I'm sure I should've known, and that I'm sure everybody else in the world actually knows but keeps quiet.
An article popped up that I couldn't resist clicking on, saying a NY rabbi admitted sucking on 25,000 newborn's penises. What ? I posted it for comment to an obtuse, pseudo-progressive bored-with-life Facebook group, and the second response was "really reliable source". Did I fall for fake news or are we today ready to dismiss anything which threatens to disagree with our confortable world view like, for example, President Trump has normal-sized hands and Michelle Obama is not a man.
No, in fact I came across an article from tomorrow, as it's already that in Israel, and we all know "Tomorrow Never Lies" and now I've exposed myself as a James Bond movies buff. Even so, apparently the practice dates from around 200PC (as opposed to "AC" or Ante-Christ) and has survived unchanged in a thin line of devout literalistz, which is the Orthodox Jewish community in New York, being the heirs of decorum in a dirty nasty age where homosexuals are joining both their original and adopted homelands' armed forcees (the Latin plural of "forces").
Of course it begs the question why God, Jesus, Muhammad, Allah or Vishnu Krishnu warned us about pork, shellfish, beef, snakes, carnies (small hands), fornication and adulteration (as in, "I'm totally baffled by your adulteration of the English language" IT'S A LIVING THING, OK ?) but never saw it necessary to warn us about herpes, possibly because it was created by the CIA in the same secret lab which gave us the HI Virus and super-cooled water. Possibly because 2 dead babies are statistically insignificant compared to the Holocaust whether real or imagined, and entering into that very discussion detracts from the real problem of victimization. And if you can't see that, you're a Nazi [rolls tongue into a swastika].
Please tell me dear friends, that there are some amongst you who are willing to assuage my despair by pretending not to have known about this common practice. Thank you ! I owe you one and a half. 