Hoping Newt’s conversion starts to take, Mark passes on this tidbit from The American Conservative:
Newt: “…waterboarding is not torture. Waterboarding has been routinely used to train American pilots in the military to understand what interrogation techniques they might encounter.”
John Schwenkler:
By extension:
•Having sex with a woman is not raping her. Sex is routinely had between men and women as an expression of love and a means to pleasure and procreation.
•Punching a man in the face is not assaulting him. Men routinely punch one another in the face in the boxing ring as a test of athletic prowess.
•Driving 75 miles an hour on a residential street is not speeding. Cars routinely drive 75 miles an hour or more on the highway.
He encourages others to add their own. Some good ones, but my favorite crass-but-funny one:
“Giving people atomic wedgies is not bullying. Underwear rides up peoples’ asses all the time on its own.”
