The Lexicographer's Rules

"She bears the taint; and though not prosecutable in law, in custom and nature the taint cannot be ignored. All the great despotisms of the pastŃI'm not arguing for despotism as a principle, but they sure knew how to deal with potential troubleŃrecognized that the families of objectionable citizens were a continuing threat. In Stalin's penal code it was a crime to be the wife or child of an 'enemy of the people.' The Nazis used the same principle, which they called Sippenhaft, 'clan liability.' In Imperial China, enemies of the state were punished 'to the ninth degree': that is, everyone in the offender's own generation would be killed, and everyone related via four generations up, to the great-great-grandparents, and four generations down, to the great-great-grandchildren, would also be killed."

—National Review. John Derbyshire, witless and heartless troll, rips into Chelsea Clinton for being, well, a Clinton.'

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