re: #206 The Pie Overlord!

BTW this quirk of Pence & now Foster, has its roots in “Issur Yichud” in Jewish halachah (religious law) in which an unrelated man and woman should not be alone in a sequestered place.

This does not apply if the man and the woman are seen together in public. If they are professionals, it’s “job-related” and if they are going out for fun, it’s a “date.”

If he’s a politician, with political enemies in a take-no-prisoners political culture, it might be little more than an excess of caution. I wish to god Al Franken had played closer to the Pence Rule.