The Law of Thumb

Somebody who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world. 
- The Law of Thumb

If something is repeated often enough, does it make it true?

The Law of Thumb is a phrase that's been used for over 300 years, yet some have perverted it's meaning recently, making it relate to wife beating. 

Read below to debunk this idea.



...The 'rule of thumb' story is an example of revisionist history that feminists happily fell into believing. It reinforces their perspective on society, and they tell it as a way of winning converts to their angry creed...
The 'rule of thumb', however, turns out to be an excellent example of what may be called a feminist fiction. Is is not to be found in William Blackstone's treatise on English common law. On the contrary, British law since the 1700s and our American laws predating the Revolution prohibit wife beating, though there have been periods and places in which the prohibition was only indifferently enforced.

That the phrase did not even originate in legal practice could have been ascertained by any fact-checker who took the trouble to look it up in the Oxford English Dictionary, which notes that the term has been used metaphorically for at least three hundred years to refer to any method of measurement or technique of estimation derived from experience rather than science.

Here is the reason I've not been able to post on this blog several times this month.

Maggie is a silky little ball of hair. She is busy constantly eating, drinking and...  No wonder she is over twice the size she was this time last month. She is growing SO fast and needs constant attention. 

I'm not complaining. As a matter of fact, I'm very glad to have her around...even when she is biting at my ankles.   

Well this is another night without the fireworks layouts. MAybe by Christmas, I'll get them done.

Good night.  Sweet dreams.