Wolfgang, you're suggestion that my comment about making birth-control retroactive constituted a new euphemism for murder is a bit over the top. If one is so inclined, one can push it to that conclusion if one wishes, but that is not at all what I intended. It was purely a wisecrack, like suggesting to some pest that they "go play in the traffic." It is not a serious suggestion that they commit suicide. It is merely a hyperbolic way of telling the person that they are being a pest.
Let's try to maintain our perspective.
I would certainly not suggest that Martin Gibson be murdered or that he go get himself run over by a bus. Although there are times when the thought has its attractions, I really want him to stay alive. I figure that just having to be himself is punishment enough for the nastiness he feels impelled to heap on other people. That can't be easy to live with.
And Larry, "The best part of being a liberal is that thinking is optional." Really? With certain exceptions such as William F. Buckley, I've always been painfully aware of an anti-intellection streak in most of the conservatives that I've talked to or heard on radio or television. Shall we compare George W. Bush's I.Q. with the I.Q of John Kerry? Or Al Gore? No? Well, okay then.
Just as a passing thought, I'll bet that Bill Moyers has a higher I.Q. than Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly combined.