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Or "If I Remember Correctly". It's a bit of internet shorthand that's been around for about as long as the internet itself.

IIRC, a strikethrough indicates "self-slaughter".

It wasn't an accident. Take a look at ancient China. They had laws stating that you could not marry someone if their surname matched yours even if you could prove that you weren't tracebly related to them in any way.

For much of human history you also usually married a cousin - 1st, 1st once removed, or 2nd - because the elders who knew you went "yup, that's a good match". Every law which says "cousins can't marry" is meant to and will break up families no matter how it's presented and written.

I would say it was taking out the extended family. Mommy and daddy probably don't know jack shit about how to raise you when you're the first child. Grandparents, OTOH, certainly do because they've "been there, done that, and have the t-shirt."

Letters of marque and reprisal were a thing during the age of sail which allowed private citizens who owned heavily armed merchant ships to actually use them in ways that weren't covered by immediate self-defense without getting executed for piracy.

That's how you solve the longitude part of the "where the hell are we?" aspect of navigation.

If a militia is not adaquately supplied with what they need - including the intangibles like discipline and leadership - you don't have a militia you can rely on in an emergency.

*shrugs* "Whatever" You are trying to goad people into responding in an "haha, I gotcha" manner. I'm not going to fall for it.

No, but do I have a college education which included reading and discussing the complete works of Shakespeare.

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." When that was written 'regulated' was a synonym for 'supplied'.

Roe v. Wade actually stated a reasonable opinion on abortion. How that US Supreme Court reached their opinion was something a later group of Justices determined was an error and kicked the issue to a more appropriate venue. Let's not argue this and call it a day. We're probably not ever going...

If you want something to stand the test of time relying on the popular vote isn't the way to do it because today's majority is yesterday's and tomorrow's minority.

I don't know what a good name for the next iteration of the right would be but conservative ain't it. I do remember that Democrats used to be mocked as "tax-and-spend liberals" because everyone likes a tax cut by politicans who weren't - and still aren't - all that interested in making the...