Archive for March 8th, 2007

Cultural Conservative

Posted on March 8th, 2007

When I was a lad, the cheapest place to buy beer was the local Working Man’s Club. My dad played in the dart’s team and could get Guinness for about 80p per pint. A few years later, we moved and the cheapest Guinness was to be had at the Conservative Club. It was a cool place to hang out. They had snooker and darts and a disco every Saturday. I played my first ever game of Space Invaders there.
I expect that, had he been around in the late 18th century, my dad would have hung out at the local Episcopalian Church with George Washington.

Which of the Founding Fathers would get elected today?

Posted on March 8th, 2007

In the comments at In the confident hope of a miracle, Matt suggested that the founding fathers were - or at least appeared to be - devout Christians and added

It would have been heresy :) to elect someone who wasn’t a Good Christian at that time, I’d expect.

I wonder how many of them were actually Christians and how many of them would be electable today.