You guys, I just talked to Fred Shuttlesworth's daughter on the phone! AND she asked me for advice about organizing historic papers from her father!

Also this morning I helped a very charming older gentleman with a Caribbean accent find an 1854 newspaper article [on the fugitive slave act], and he turned out to be a chaired professor at Vanderbilt in town for a conference.

I'm all up in African-American history today.

That one at least allows one to legitimately use "pigfucker" in political discourse, which is worth something.

ETA in response to juliana, not flea, in case that is not clear

That one at least allows one to legitimately use "pigfucker" in political discourse, which is worth something.

Right? I always thought that was metaphorical.

Flea, that's exciting!

VERY COOL, FLEA!!

In the play "Mouthful of Birds" there is an English man who falls in love with a pig. He has what I remember as a beautiful monologue that made me cry and believe he was really in love with the pig. Then there was a weird pig in a hottub dance.

flea, that is awesome! See, everyone needs the library!

This is the country that has elected a former porn star to the House of Deputies more than once.

I've met a few porn stars who were really smart, I don't see why that should disqualify one from holding office! Better a porn star than a greedy kazillionaire.

At least no one on this side of the pond has been outed as someone who put their genitals in a dead pig's mouth.

I don't get why anyone cares about this, beyond the opportunity to call him a pigfucker. It was a drunk frat-boy dare. Gross, sure, but people have done grosser things with their goolies even without a stupid dare. Now if he'd put his danglies in a LIVE pig's mouth... that would've been a story, and history might've been rather different.

Not to mention that he'd probably be childless ...

Pigs really will eat anything.