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Liberal Coalition member Echidne Of The Snakes gives us Rara Avis, Part III (Laura Schlessinger) A look at witch-doctor Laura Schlessinger's new so called book about how to operate a home based petting zoo for human beings.

+ also from Echidne... No Doesn't Mean No?, including comment on recent babblings from some jawbone named James Bowman at the National Rearview....I mean Review!, the National Review, sorry.

James Bowman (National Review) pines for the old days when: Pre-feminist common sense suggested that a woman who comes alone to a man's hotel room late at night has already consented to sex with him.

Pre-Feminism? When exactly was the age of "Pre-Feminism" anyway? Was that like before or after the age of farthingales? Before the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848? How 'bout this below? Circa 18th to early 19th century.

Following the English common law, the US legal system long assigned women a special and inferior status. Although the Constitution did not use the words "men" and "women" but always "people," "persons," and "citizens," the courts did not interpret these terms to include women. Rather, they classified women with children and imbeciles as incapable of managing their own affairs. Women were denied educations, barred from certain occupations and professions, and excluded from juries and public offices. Married women were virtually the property of their husbands. They were limited in their ability to own property, sign contracts, obtain credit, go nto business, control their earnings, write wills. The law regarded home and family as the special province of women, and it did all it could to confine them there in the belief that this was in the best interests of women themselves and of the society as a whole. ~ from The New American Desk Encylopedia, encyclopedia entry for, "Women's Movement".

Is that what conservatives mean by "Pre-Feminism"? Or is that just some junk-history type stuff written by elitist Volvo driving latte swilling encyclopedia freakshow editors? Probably Feminists theselves. Or is "Pre-Feminism" that glorious age just prior to the age of Dr Laura Schlessinger's cheesecake nudie photos? Would those early nudie photos therefore make Dr. Laura a Neo-Pre-Feminist! And if so, is any criticism of Neo-Pre-Feminist Dr. Laura Schlessinger, or the Pre-Feminist National Review man's hotel room late night playboy guy James Bowman, simply a coded anti-semitic hate speech attack by, by, by, ah-my-gawd! -- Femi-Nazis!?

Good gawd-a-mighty, huh.

And, from LC member edwardpig I larn'd me this:

Just When You Thought it was Safe to Vote in Florida" Katherine Harris, after a single term in Congress, is considering a run for Bob Graham's open Senate seat.

Would that sort of "run" be considered ladylike? Or Pre-Feminist or Neo-Pre-Feminist? Or perhaps even, Neo-Farthingale? And if Harris trys to grab Graham's seat does that mean he can have his way with her in a hotel room? Gosh, I need a drink.