On the stealing of caveman penises
Reuters tells me that the rash of sorcerers stealing people’s penises has now grown to encompass the Democratic Republic of the Congo. How? How could this happen to my beautiful homeland?
More to the point, I suppose, how can people actually believe this? I have a pretty good insight into mystical and/or religious thinking, but this one puzzles me a bit. It’s not just that people think wizards are stealing their penises in the abstract — there are reports by people swearing that their own penises have been taken. And somehow pointing out that they’re still there doesn’t seem to convince these people that no penis theft is taking place; they just declare that what’s left is tiny and impotent. This is especially confusing to me because when I look down and see a tiny penis, hey, par for the course.
