NO ACT IS TOO UNSPEAKABLE FOR THEM, SO LONG AS THE HAND THAT PERFORMS IT IS SUITABLY BROWN AND WEATHERED: Activist finds left’s silence on genital mutilation case dismaying.

No, that line isn’t original with me — it was in a review of Germaine Greer I read back in the 1980s. But it stuck.

UPDATE: Siloam Health Chooses Not to Help Stop Female Genital Mutilation in Tennessee. “The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) report, estimates that the Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin Metropolitan Statistical Area is ranked 20th in the country for the potential risk of FGM being performed on women and girls and that Tennessee is number 18 in overall state rankings for risk to women and girls from FGM.”