re: #113 Occam’s Guillotine

Actually, Amarillo seems to be a much better run city than Lubbock. Of course, being better run than Lubbock is a little like being the leper with the most fingers.

During the Middle Ages, though, being the leper with the most fingers sometimes meant that if you were also a man you might also be able join the Knights of St. Lazarus and go on a Crusade. Those few lepers who could do this tended to do so, as their enforced chastity made a life dedicated to the Lord’s service easier to accept and the prospect of death in battle was a good bit more desirable than death from leprosy. Especially since, by the Catholic teaching of the day, if you were killed fighting for Christ’s sake on Crusade you went straight to Heaven.