In fact, it was abortion they had less of a problem with. Going from turning a blind eye to banning it and then back to turning a blind eye. They used herbal remedies and other methods to terminate or avoid pregnancies. I've done my research and so has the naked guy. He's one of the better ones, although he's not a pc historian.

http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/book-sum/brodie.html

18th Century Man - historian Forrest McDonald - Brief Article - Interview

"I write for anybody who's intelligent and who's interested in the subject," University of Alabama historian Forrest McDonald told C-SPAN's Brian Lamb back in 1994. Continuing in the same welcoming spirit, McDonald also offered that he writes in the nude on his porch; a complete transcript of the genuinely engaging interview is available online at www.booknotes.org/transcripts/10046.htm.

McDonald, who jokes that he's spent most of his adult life in the 18th century, is the author of over a dozen books, including a biography of Alexander Hamilton and The American Presidency: An Intellectual History. His latest, the eminently readable States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876 (University Press of Kansas), traces states' rights discourse from the Declaration of Independence through the Reconstruction Era....

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1568/is_11_32/ai_72344887

a joint ticket?

So, you don't like that idea, LWM?

Ondolette,

The ancient Romans were hardly puritans. That's who landed at Plymouth Rock. Not Caligula.

All of the younger folks I know (well, he and my daughter) seem to think that I have unusually rigid rules about who should be allowed to vote in a Democratic primary.

Of course, none of them were alive in 1960, or 1963, or 1968, or 1969, etc. etc.

To her credit, though, my daughter did pay some attention to Iran-Contra despite her tender years.

Anyway, the point I tried to make to them was that just because someone was dabbling in the primary was no guarantee that they would also vote for a Democrat in the general. Which... pretty much throws all of the forecasting (based on Democratic turnout) right out the window, doncha think?

If Power had made it to the General Election campaign, and then told Peev that it was McCain who was vicious, would Carlson have insisted that it be kept off the record? That is, I know the answer, but the question should be out there.

From what I've seen of the British media--mainly the BBC and The Independent; I have more confidence in them than the US media. Does Carlson think it's the media's job to keep ordinary people ignorant?

he really wanted to be part of making history in the Democratic party's primary.

-- Anonymust

That's self indulgent, self centered and just weird. As William Shatner used to say to the obsessed Trekies, "Get a life, damn it!"

Unfortunately, the great majority of our politicians/officials don't know how to react to a challenge except to piss harder and longer. That's mostly because of closed minds and ears who are not looking for answers or solutions. They are looking at how to beat the competition, win the most spoils and stay in office at any price. Sad isn't it?

Thanks for the reference to the dickipedia. A truly phenomenal resource!

Richard Bruce Cheney (born January 30, 1941) is a former United States Congressman, Secretary of Defense, the 46th Vice President of the United States and a dick. He also served as White House Chief of Staff, and in the private sector was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Halliburton Energy Services. Every decision he has ever made has been wrong.

Cheney is sub-species of dick known as the "Chicken Hawk,” which is a person who publicly supports a war but is too much of a pussy to fight in it himself. There is a scene in the movie "Office Space" when one of the characters, Michael Bolton, is sitting in his fancy car listening to hardcore gangsta rap, and then the black guy pulls up next to him, and he rolls the window up. A chickenhawk is this sort of person.

In 1963, with the draft board ramping up, Cheney enrolled in Casper Community College (one of the finest institutions of higher-learning in Southwest Casper), and received his first student deferment. Later that year, he got his second student deferment. In August of 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, escalating American military involvement. Twenty-two days later, Dick married his wife, and a few months later received his third deferment. In July, 1965, President Johnson announced he would double the number of the number of draftees. Cheney moved quickly, entered graduate school that year, and received his fourth student deferment. This was quite a sacrifice, as grad school is known to be extremely boring. Cheney received a “hardship exemption" in 1966 when he and his wife conceived their first child. By the next year, he was no longer eligible for the draft. It had been a long process, but Cheney learned a valuable lesson: if you get in a jam, you can usually get out of it by fucking somebody.

Cheney’s career is notable for having taken place almost entirely within a "dick bubble." He began his career as in intern for Richard Nixon and was campaign manager in 1976 for Gerald Ford -- a campaign that managed to lose a governor of Georgia. Dick was then elected to the House, where he served until 1989. Part of this service included voting against making the birthday of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. a holiday, voting against calling on South Africa to release Nelson Mandela, and voting against the creation of the Department of Education -- the kind of congressman that would be produced if George Wallace and Barry Goldwater had a child who inherited the worst of each and then grew up to be a congressman and also lost his hair.

With the really fun part of war in Iraq winding down, in May 2007 Cheney gave a speech warning Iran about its nuclear program. Many took this to be setting the stage for a war with Iran, this one even possibly involving nuclear weapons. This alarmed many people, even those in the dick community. One theory about why Cheney would care so little about nuclear war and the casualties it would cause is because, in fact, Cheney actually died several years ago, and is just too big of a dick to leave, instead simply willing his body to carry one through sheer dick will.

Cheney has always maintained that when his term expires he will retire from public life. His choices for what he will do after leaving the administration may be influenced by an approval rate that by late 2007 hovered in the twenties. Though that is a record low, his supporters point out that it is still higher than those of Ceauşescu, Hitler and Joe Francis, who still seems to be able to make a decent living.

My cheeks are still hurting...