Double post

Somehow I managed to post “Piercing” twice, which might have as much to do with a very slow server response at Harvard as with my even slower brain response due to an ever-accelerating flare-up of sinusitis.  Cotton balls for brains, and the sensation of pain where there is no brain.  Why do we have sinuses again?  Oh, right: our heads, if made of solid bone (you’ve heard the expression ‘bonehead’?) would be too heavy to hold upright…