{"id":2939,"date":"2006-08-21T18:22:15","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T01:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/21\/life-in-these-united-states\/"},"modified":"2006-08-21T18:39:39","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T01:39:39","slug":"life-in-these-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/21\/life-in-these-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in These United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally, when time permits (and it rarely does), I indulge myself by reading something non-work-related, something wonderfully distant from the carnage in the Middle East or the police state at home. Maybe something about art, or sports, or science. For instance, today I read <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2148034\/nav\/tap1\/\">a piece at Salon.com about male circumcision<\/a>, arguments for and against. I have no position on the issue \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and I don&#8217;t care what yours is, so don&#8217;t send me any foreskin screeds \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it was just a way to kill five free minutes without thinking of politics (an ancient idiocy we libertarians are supposed to be trying to eradicate \u00e2\u20ac\u201c with great success, you might have noticed).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, at the end of the piece, Slate&#8217;s editors posted a few of the most insightful comments from readers. And at the conclusion of the third comment, in reference to an upcoming anti-circumcision conference in Seattle, one of Slate&#8217;s all-star commenters writes,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Symposia such as the one in Seattle have more than a whiff of hysteria about them. I wouldn&#8217;t dare to suggest that there might be a small hint of anti-semitism as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which, stripped of sophomoric coyness, means, <em>The anti-circumcision movement is driven by hatred of Jews.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ah, anti-Semitism: the one topic no discussion in this country is ever allowed to omit. Posterity will have a field day with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally, when time permits (and it rarely does), I indulge myself by reading something non-work-related, something wonderfully distant from the carnage in the Middle East or the police state at home. Maybe something about art, or sports, or science. For instance, today I read a piece at Salon.com about male circumcision, arguments for and against. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}