--- On Thu, 12/9/10, Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote: --- Darren Greer <darren.greer3@gmail.com> wrote:

It was easier in the old days, when you could be black-listed for carrying a copy of Das Capital across the border but the kind of sex you preferred would only affect your chances for getting elected to public office.

Er, not quite. Back in the McCarthy era they were purging homosexuals in government office as well as communists. It was said that at one point people were so self-conscious that when someone bought a banana in the State Department cafeteria they'd eat it like corn on the cob. Mike