Unfortunately, some fool GOP Congress critter is going to take this Meisterwerk and stumble with it.

I'm afraid I was sputtering over on Denise's Main Feed "Rape" thread. Not my most CoC-compliant hour. Serving on a hung jury for the rape of a 13-year-old gets you that way.

I wish they were corrupt, KC.  As in normal human frailty like Bubba Clinton.

And perhaps they are corrupt by your definition.

However, by their own lights they're incorruptible. As in Robespierre.

No posts in six hours? Oh what has happened to the hate?

 You're right. The crack was not CoC-compliant. Please forgive me.

I stand by my Akin comparison. Rape is a terrible crime. The guilty must be punished. Full stop. Your treatment of it was breezy and flip.

I've been on a rape jury and heard this responsibility rap used to diminish guilt.

Open-and-shut. Of a 13-year-old girl. 4' 8", 85 lbs. By a 24-year old family friend who offered her a ride home, suggested they play some video games, spiked her drink, then sodomized her. They tried to muddy the waters and make it appear consensual.

• Why'd she take a ride home? (Family friend, duh?)
• Why would a man play video games?
• Why didn't she notice the spiked drink? (Made Koolaid w/ vodka... duh)
• She could have looked older. (He knew her and she's 4' 8")
• She's so pretty. (A fight nearly broke out in the jury room when discussing)

Two grandmothers, two nebbishy bureaucrats, and a dweeb bought it. The two dads, four moms, and I went insane.

To paraphrase your own words:

If I drop into a post, get out my keyboard, and drop some comments... am I guilty for the probable assault I'm going to face?

[Redacted for CoC]

Don't tell me... Todd Akin joined Ricochet.

@Severely: Ha! My wife is a Texan and ran a trading desk on the Street. I don't need to go shopping for sweet, sour, or bitter.

You've got the idea. One needs a brazenness that as the eldest I never mastered, but my brother did. My brother can count cards, keep a poker face, and has been banned by the Geneva Convention as an illegal WMD.

It is only right that my son -- as the only male in the next generation -- should get the best of our powers.

@Larry: My brother taught the finger pull and plausible deniability.

@Larry: We called those "blowouts"

@Joan: All men go gaga for blondes? You must have missed DocJay and I raving over Hedy Lamarr and Vivien Leigh. My wife is a brunette. I like my women just like my coffee: dark and bitter.

@Joan: Please. Such mentions are trifles. I have already instructed my son in the liberal arts of the fart, including "silent, but deadly" "he who smelt it dealt it" and the ever popular "here I sit, all brokenhearted; tried to [CoC violation], but only farted." I will leave science and engineering -- e.g., fart capture and detonation -- for his peers in the Boy Scouts.

While I had been an active Boy Scout, I had barely started Cub Scouting in one post before we moved (then I aged out). Didn't appreciate it, really.

What's neat has been to watch my son move from a boy who liked to hang close to dad to a boy who hangs with his buds as they explore the woods (and have to be called back or rounded up back into camp).

Independence and male bonding don't get encouraged enough these days.

Sorry, should have made it clearer that this was my town and my son's teachers.  The perils of a pre-meeting post.

Gotta give @KevinNR the credit for this scoop. He had it days before, but has been too busy policing city theatres to toot his own horn.