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This Toles\u2019 cartoon on despondent voters getting liquored up reminds me of how Civil War surgeons gave soldiers whiskey before sawing off their legs. What is the best alcohol anesthetic for the amputation of the Bill of Rights?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Toles\u2019 cartoon on despondent voters getting liquored up reminds me of how Civil War surgeons gave soldiers whiskey before sawing off their legs. What is the best alcohol anesthetic for the amputation of the Bill of Rights?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,104,542,274,56,451,327,52,570,356,269],"class_list":["post-8630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-attention-deficit-democracy","tag-beer","tag-bill-of-rights","tag-buffoonery","tag-cartoon","tag-constitution","tag-cynicism","tag-democracy","tag-drunk","tag-elections","tag-voting"],"yoast_head":"\nBest Anesthesia for Amputating the Bill of Rights? - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Civil War surgeons gave soldiers whiskey before sawing off their legs. 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