DEFENDING FEMALE CIRCUMCISION: You just know that someone on the left is going to start screaming about this sooner or later. The left, especially the radical feminists, all love to extoll the virtues of non-Western cultures over those of the paternalistic, materialistic and imperialistic West right up to the point where the noble savages do something that contradicts any of the left's pet shibboleths and then there will be hell to pay, or would be, if anyone on the left believed in hell.