Etymology of the word: The origin of the term is not definitively known. Roman Lex Regia (royal law), later the Lex Caesarea (imperial law), of Numa Pompilius (715–673 BC),[153] required the child of a mother who had died during childbirth to be cut from her womb.[154] There was a cultural taboo that mothers should not be buried pregnant,[155] that may have reflected a way of saving some fetuses. Roman practice required a living mother to be in her tenth month of pregnancy before resorting to the procedure, reflecting the knowledge that she could not survive the delivery.[156] Speculations that the Roman dictator Julius Caesar was born by the method now known as C-section are false.[157] Although caesarean sections were performed in Roman times, no classical source records a mother surviving such a delivery, while Caesar's mother lived for years after his birth.[154][158] As late as the 12th century, scholar and physician Maimonides expresses doubt over the possibility of a woman's surviving this procedure and again becoming pregnant.[159] The term has also been explained as deriving from the verb caedere, 'to cut', with children delivered this way referred to as caesones. Pliny the Elder refers to a certain Julius Caesar (an ancestor of the famous Roman statesman) as ab utero caeso, 'cut from the womb' giving this as an explanation for the cognomen Caesar which was then carried by his descendants.[154] Nonetheless, the false etymology has been widely repeated until recently. For example, the first (1888) and second (1989) editions of the Oxford English Dictionary say that caesarean birth "was done in the case of Julius Cæsar".[160] More recent dictionaries are more diffident: the online edition of the OED (2021) mentions "the traditional belief that Julius Cæsar was delivered this way",[161] and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (2003) says "from the legendary association of such a delivery with the Roman cognomen Caesar".[162] The word Caesar, meaning either Julius Caesar or an emperor in general, is also borrowed or calqued in the name of the procedure in many other languages in Europe and beyond.[163] Finally, the Roman praenomen (given name) Caeso was said to be given to children who were born via C-section. While this was probably just folk etymology made popular by Pliny the Elder, it was well known by the time the term came into common use.[164] I remember reading an article about the etymology of the term... https://web.archive.org/web/20130515013653/http://www.sajog.org.za/index.php/SAJOG/article/viewFile/158/117

Still, nice to see him cork his detractors’ pieholes.

The thought of Joni Ernst walking around the house naked....shudder.

I recall seeing similar behavior at a White House event - balcony on the 4th of July?

This is a great thread!

Rick Zimmer told the story about his dog growling at their baby then taking a sudden leap towards it. IIRC his wife exercised extreme reflexes and strength and caught the dog by the collar, saving the baby’s life. They put the dog in the garage overnight and had it sent to the pound the next day.

@George-K said in Fuel economy for thee, not for me...: Well, with all the charging stations the Biden administration has established, I think this is short-sighted. I see what you did there...

The idea would be they’d gain more in other demographics where the former stance was unpopular.

Shouldn’t this be in the Senator Trump for SecDef DeSantis thread?

What a great piece, and fascinating indeed.

The puritans banned alcohol, too. Imagine trying to get through all the joy that Christmas brings without alcohol.

For me, David Attenborough. Love the stuff he talks about, but his voice is so soothing. That and Law and Order reruns. All dialogue based so you can close your eyes and listen to it. Out in five minutes or less.

That would be too generous I think. Maga media pushed that hard. The original authors I assume knew they were lying. But most who just heard it repeated over and over probably assumed it was true. I suspect he’s in the latter category.

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Okay. I guess Im not panromantic. 555

I'm tellin' ya, execution is the way to go. Like vinyl, it's final.

@Tom-K said in Eat like Frank: @Mik said in Eat like Frank: I can make an equally good steak at home for a LOT less, even using prime. That I see is a real problem with restaurants. If you (or your wife) can cook you can make a lot better dinners at home. The Fresh Market has a thing called "Premium Choice" that really is indistinguishable from Prime, at 1/3 the cost. As far as having dinner like Frank--I'd be up for that every now and then. For the Frank, not necessarily the food. Fresh Market is my local go to for meat and seafood. Great quality.

@Horace said in On this day: Nice song. +1

More about Kass: https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/john-kass/ct-cancel-culture-kass-20200729-chokjsdvezbtbokgwy2bc76nty-story.html The angry left-handed broom of America’s cultural revolution uses fear to sweep through the our civic, corporate and personal life. It brings with it attempted intimidation, shame and the usual demands for ceremonies of public groveling. It is happening in newsrooms in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles. And now it’s coming for me, in an attempt to shame me into silence. Here’s what happened: Last week, with violence spiking around the country, I wrote a column on the growing sense of lawlessness in America’s urban areas. In response, the Tribune newspaper union, the Chicago Tribune Guild, which I have repeatedly and politely declined to join, wrote an open letter to management defaming me, by falsely accusing me of religious bigotry and fomenting conspiracy theories…. You’d think that before wildly accusing someone of fomenting bigoted conspiracy theories, journalists on the union’s executive board would at least take the time to Google the words “Soros,” “funding” and “local prosecutors.” …. Most people subjected to cancel culture don’t have a voice. They’re afraid. They have no platform. When they’re shouted down, they’re expected to grovel. After the groveling, comes social isolation. Then they are swept away. But I have a newspaper column. As a columnist and political reporter, I have given some 35 years of my life to the Chicago Tribune, even more if you count my time as an eager Tribune copy boy. And over this time, readers know that I have shown respect to my profession, to colleagues and to this newspaper. Agree with me or not — and isn’t that the point of a newspaper column? — I owe readers a clear statement of what I will do and not do: I will not apologize for writing about Soros. I will not bow to those who’ve wrongly defamed me. I will continue writing my column…. We come into this world alone and we leave alone. And the most important thing we leave behind isn’t money. The most important thing we leave is our name. We leave that to our children. And I will not soil my name by groveling to anyone in this or any other newsroom. His posts on X https://x.com/search?f=top&q=Chicago Tribune (from%3Ajohn_kass)&src=typed_query