It's a curious thing, being raised in a traditionally-repressive, prudish, gender-dichotomized household where the teenagers, or at least the girls, are not allowed to watch R-rated movies nor read recent Young Adult novels lest there be S-E-X in them, but which is nevertheless highly kulturny and thus filled with many, many old books (or new ( Read more... )

Purely by accident, thru real-world dowsing this time, I found (via a whimsical entry in a recent issue of I.D. magazine) out that in the 1972 presidential campagin, Nixon ran on a platform of tarring his Dem opponent McGovern as being for "Acid, Amnesty, and Abortion", a coinage I have found attributed to Spirou Agnew tho' can't verify that, and ( Read more... )