In article >,
Michael Odom > wrote:

> From the New York Times
>
> "Old Law Shielding a Woman's Virtue Faces an Updating
> By SARAH KERSHAW
>
> Published: January 26, 2005
>
> SEATTLE, Jan. 25 - It is about time, politicians here are saying, for
> the state of Washington to catch up with the rest of the world.
>
> Florida has struck down a law forbidding unmarried women from
> parachuting on Sundays. Michigan has done away with a law making it
> illegal to swear in front of women and children. Texas women no longer
> face 12 months in prison for adjusting their stockings in public. And
> the ladies of Maine can now legally tickle a man under the chin with a
> feather duster.
>
> But here in Washington, in 2005, it is still illegal, under a 1909
> law, to bring a woman's virtue into question publicly, to call her a
> hussy or a strumpet.
>
> And now, a state senator from Seattle - who is not saying she supports
> attacking the chastity of Washington women - is, nevertheless, trying
> to overturn the state's "Slander of a Woman" law."
>
> OBFood: I have no idea what I'm going to cook for dinner tonight.
> I'll drop by the market after work and see what speaks to me, I
> suppose.
>
>
This story has received no play in either Seattle newspaper. It could
be that our news is still dominated by dead folks voting (as I recall, a
Texas tradition). Another interesting story, which sounds as if it
should come straight from Texas, involves a woman arrested for a plot to
hurt witnesses in a case against her. She paid her son to find people
to do the hurting. By weird coincidence, the son was killed in an
argument with his girlfriend over the weekend. So much for that witness.

OB food to shut up the yahoos who'll ask about this OT thread: SO's
making ribs tonight. Not sure how he's going to do them, and neither is
he at this juncture.

Cindy

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