I would urge our three senators to have a look at Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Life of Franklin Pierce" (1852), in which the writer specifies qualities that supposedly recommend his old college chum for the highest position in the land.
After all, they've been using encryption for decades, and even now, the top five encrypted applications Isis supposedly recommends to their followers are either open-source (meaning the code is already all over the internet), made by companies in other countries, or both.
And Facebook is just entering the game with its M that supposedly recommends actions and content.
Hippocrates, the famous Greek physician, was largely against abortion, but a text supposedly by him recommended a technique that became popular throughout the ages: "jump up and down, touching her buttocks with her heels at each leap" until the embryo became "loose" and fell out.
It's widely known that bed rest — recommended to supposedly prevent preterm labor — is supported by little evidence and could cause harm.
Popping a pill can make things better in the short term, but in the long term, drugs, even supposedly "benign" drugs at recommended doses, can have strange, paradoxical effects.
But I'm broke and despite the fact the bottle supposedly lasts for a month and a half at the recommended dosage, it's perhaps not worth numbing away that much of my pay cheque.
Structured treatment interruptions have not been recommended in Greenland or Denmark, so these persons supposedly have interrupted their therapy because of compliance problems.
Ostensibly they recommended treatments for abusive priests -- recommendations that were filed away and forgotten, the grand jury said -- and met with victims and their families, supposedly to discuss possible avenues of action.
The fish guide recommended I stop feeding him freeze-dried bloodworms, which look like tiny pork rinds and are, supposedly, just as nutritionally dubious.
