More Obama Stuff

[robinturner]

I'm having a hard time believing this, but it looks like Obama really is going to be all he's cracked up to be. Right now, the only thing keeping me from going glassy-eyed is the memory that a lot of us felt that way when Tony Blair was elected.

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[solri.livejournal.com]

In practice, of course not. But I think vret was referring to the kind of law that gets forgotten but remains on the stature books because no one has bothered to repeal it. For example, in Britain I think it's still technically illegal to walk more than a mile on a Sunday. More pertinently, the blasphemy law, which almost everyone had forgotten about, was notoriously dragged out in the 1970s to prosecute the newspaper Gay News for publishing an erotic poem about Jesus.