Why include both?

Hmm... let's see. On Sept. 11th, in New York City, a man is reading the Koran. Next to him, a man is reading the Bible. The man reading the Bible interracts with a warrior returned from Afghanistan.

The man reading the Koran isn't molested or disturbed in any way. That is a testament to America.

Hitler may not have wanted the war he got, but he did want war. When you attack somebody, and declare war on them, then duh, you want war. Even, or perhaps especially in war, the Law of Unintended Consequences will hammer ya.

"Spota", yeah, it sounds like it's a contracted variant of "supposed to", just the sort of dynamic linguistic capitalism that a free language generates. My guess is that the word hails from the new realms of electronic messenging/texting. Given Wendy's elucidation regarding Frank Knight, I'd recommend saving the snark, else she might turn her sights on YOU.

The divorce rates quoted above are per 1000 people, not per 1000 marriages. For sake of argument, let's just consider 1000 adults, split evenly 50/50 m/f. If there are 400 marriages, and 10% of them get divorced, then the divorce rate per 1000 people would be either 4 or 8 %, depending on whether you count events {the divorce}, or people affected {the spouses. If, on the other hand, there are only 200 marriages and the other 200 couples decide to shack up, but you stil have 10% of the marriages end in divorce, you'd have either a 2% or 4% divorce rate, same caveat as above. So yes, the cohabitors do matter as these statistics are being presented.

Wendy, and those who argue that gov't shouldn't be involved in marriage at all...

"and they deserve support, encouragement and validation from all of society. - honest lib "

No they don't. Nobody DESERVES support, encouragement and validation from all of society. To deserve something from all of society, then you need to do something that benefits all of society. Having sex with somebody, regardless of the respective sex organs involved, doesn't benefit society. Having children arguably can, if one believes that the continuation of society is a good thing. Since heterosexual sex is still the overwhelming method of conceiving children, it is part of a chain that leads to societal benefit, and therefor can earn some small measure of support, encouragement and validation from society. Small measure. ...

Having been frustrated in the past with the repair issues due to tightly controlled manufacturer info, I sympathize with Horace's concept. Which means I'm in danger of turning into a liberal.... sigh. I'll endeavour to avoid such a distressing fate.

Seriously, the manufacturer's put a lot of money into developing and compiling that repair info. A basic and decent respect for intellectual property demands that they be allowed to control it themselves. Other companies can certainly reverse engineer it (Haynes, Clymer?) if they desire, and sell the results. Now, Congress does have the authority to set time limits for exclusive control of intellectual property, and I wouldn't be averse to putting a much shorter limit on repair...