The Proposed Lincoln-Douglas Debate between the Two Dem Candidates

What an interesting idea! Which would be Lincoln and which Douglas? NO MODERATORS! Best idea yet. Like a pick-up game of hoops. Police yourself. Watch their cooperative skills in action. Watch their mutual respect for the operant, emergent rules they interact with. See their management style in action. Hear the topics fly by and show their gear-shifting manners in direct, face-to-face staring match. Notice the color rise in their faces, the false and true smiles that flicker through facial micro-momentaries — you’ve got to love it! The next President’s body language on parade, facing important negotiations of national moment, in free, make-it-up-as-you-go interaction. The wind currents and the para-glide through the issues.

An alternative, better yet: sit at a table and have a discussion (not a “conversation”–very intelligent, educated people know the formal difference, which I have detailed elsewhere on this blog).

We should be so lucky! No interloper coming between them! Whoopee!

The Polygamous Cult (JCLDS) in West Texas and the 72 Virgins

It seems to me that in West Texas we have, in such arrangements of the compound built around the subjection of young, almost pre-pubescent girls to the whims of older men, a similarity to the religion that has a belief that 72 virgins await the martyrs of the suicide-bombing? (I wonder how many rivals the bombers take with them to complicate their quest.) The polygamous cult does it without the death and destruction. Or do they, really?