In the Spanish Inquisition section of the Medieval Torture Museum in Amsterdam, among such pain tools as the Rack, the Pear of Anguish and assorted thumbscrews, there is this little doozy, used to crush wrists of heretics and others holding politically incorrect views. Seeing how creative our ancestors have been when it came to inflicting pain on each other, one can’t help rejoicing that things have changed. In the last five centuries we learned to be tolerant and respect eac