The Rolling Stone has run a web version of its 1973 interview with Daniel Ellsberg. Ellsberg is the former US military analyst who blew the whistle on the Nixon administration's misdeeds regarding the Vietnam War. Specfically he photocopied an extensive, secret study and gave it to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and later to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and nearly a score of other newspapers. These documents he released became known as the Pentagon Papers eventually published as excerpts and commentaries by The New York Times. Both The New York Times and The Rolling Stone have since drifted from that kind of coverage and the article provides an interesting contrast to how those publications are now.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Arik on Thursday January 04 2018, @02:05AM (2 children)
Yes. The implication was that a female butler is inconceivable, impossible, a contradiction in terms.
but·ler
ˈbətlər/
noun
noun: butler; plural noun: butlers
the chief manservant of a house.
No woman would take such a job, and even if one did, she still wouldn't be a butler.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by dry on Thursday January 04 2018, @03:51AM (1 child)
Actually, there are quite a few female butlers. Times change and we even have female firemen.
According to Wiki, the first mention of a female butler was in a 1892 book and here's one of the first hits talking about female butlers (often called House Managers or Personal Assistants, just like a fireman are often called fireperson) http://www.thebillionairesbutler.com/2011/04/faq-are-there-female-butlers.html [thebillionairesbutler.com]
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Arik on Thursday January 04 2018, @05:12AM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?