Planned Parenthood has fired a clinic manager who was seen on videotape advising a man posing as a sex trafficker, and anti-abortion groups seized on the episode to step up their campaign to cut off public financing for the organization.
Jones's success in lasting the distance was a tribute to his command of the quality usually described as warrior spirit, but those closest to him would do well to advise a man nearing his 40th birthday against a rematch.
In 1972, when I was a law student and just starting out in the business of politics, I worked on a campaign for the district attorney in East Baton Rouge parish, advising a man named Ossie Bluege Brown.
The fifth chapter of the "Kama Sutra", an old Hindu text on sexual behaviour, suggested rape as one of various legitimate forms of marriage, advising a man he can have sex with a drugged woman, "before she recovers from her intoxication", and then claim her as his wife.
"Don't bother worrying about it until you can actually see it," advised a local man, not particularly comfortingly, as we both gazed at the skies.
