Adulterers Beware!
In ancient Athens, the penalties for adultery included having one's pubic hairs yanked out and a radish shoved up where the sun don't shine.
Libertarians, My Libertarians!
Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas -- unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
I was told by my elders that that's what adultery WAS.
ReplyDeleteI can't help but imagine that a certain percentage of Athenians actually enjoyed the punishment more than the crime.
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