"I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed up to hit a pedestrian or, of course, stop to kick a pedestrian who had already been hit. From which it followed, of course, that one would never ever --on pain of deletion from dozens of Christmas card lists acrosss the country-- vote Republican" - Barbara Ehrenreich