AMITAI ETZIONI REFLECTS:

If you are worried about the quality of our top-line intellectual magazines, the following quote might reassure you: Harpers found in its December 2002 issue that “the minimum number of neutered pets worldwide that have been implanted with fake testicles stands at 100,000.”

But what’s really impressive is that he then discusses some other articles about politics, and doesn’t work in a fake-testicles joke.