Mal ,'Objects In Space'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Do they mean the Puritan theocracy or do they mean people like Jefferson, Franklin, Paine, Adams and Hancock, whose religions were Deist, Deist, atheist, Unitarian and money.
From what I've read of that crowd? Puritan theocracy, in some cases explicitly so. Ugh.
Do they mean the Puritan theocracy or do they mean people like Jefferson, Franklin, Paine, Adams and Hancock, whose religions were Deist, Deist, atheist, Unitarian and money.
Kind of off the point but Hancock will now always be John HOTcock in my mind now that Justin Theroux has played him.
I only meant that he's articulate compared to the drooling slack-jawed yokel currently in the White House.
OMG, I just realized Shrub isn't the POTUS, he's the CLETUS.
The fact that he's a faux-yokel makes it worse.
I agree that that crowd seems to yearn for a theocracy in which everything that is not compulsory is forbidden, but they say they're talking about the Constitution. I think it's rather remarkably self-centered to believe that it's going to be your religion that's running the show in a theocracy. In Massachusetts, most of them would be in the stocks.
Heh. A senior person in the firm just sent out a letter announcing his imminent departure that begins thusly:
Dear Colleagues,
I am sick of you all.
John HOTcock
It's terribly unfair of you to put that in my brain. I'm going to slip and say that at a VERY inopportune moment, I can already tell.
Ironically, the Puritan theocracy had... really high rates of out-of-wedlock childbirth, flogging, and people constantly moving away in a snit to found Providence, RI. Also, for most of the time that it was straight-up theocratic, those people were po'. Like, cornmeal for supper kind of po'. I don't think anybody who's actually thought it through really wants the Puritan theocracy back, unless they have a kooky fetish for short pants and cornmeal.
I had a friend who frequently wished that things would go back to "the way it was 100 years ago."
And I'd say, "you know you'd probably be dead, right?"
unless they have a kooky fetish for short pants and cornmeal.
Have we checked the fetish map for this?
In Massachusetts, most of them would be in the stocks.
How much am I loving watching the JOHN ADAMS series just for all the mentions of Massachusetts in a founding of the UDS context. A whole lot.
I'm waiting for accusations of Democratic propaganda from the wingnuts and ditto-heads. Of course, if Mitt had gotten the nom I suspect we'd hear a different tune (and he wouldn't be slagging off the state quite so prominently as he had been).