FORE-THOUGHT

What’s so funny about this? You gotta love babies. Everybody does. They look so cute doing everything they do. What strikes us as particularly funny is when their facial expressions and their actions seem to resemble what adults do. Then we can imagine that they are having the same kind of conversations about the same kind of topics adults talk about. So, in today’s joke we have two babies hanging out with a laptop computer. Not surprisingly, they are talking about a subject near and dear to male babies, circumcision. This is the cutting and removal of the foreskin of the penis. This is an ancient ritual practiced by many cultures and religions. Most of the time it happens a few days after a baby is born, but in some cultures it can happen any time before puberty, and in still others any time before the male gets married which is usually before the age of twenty. When it’s done shortly after birth, it’s only slightly painful, but when it’s done later in life, it can be extremely painf