The only loveable pit bull was the one on the leash of George C. Scott's General Patton, who hid under a table when a Chihuahua barked. Descended from the mastiff, the Legionary guard dog, they have been bred for all their history to fight and attack. They should simply be extirpated, down to the last puppy. Remember that young woman writer in SF who was killed by two of them in her apartment foyer? Nonetheless, Palin was making a joke, and by the reaction in the Xcel Hall, in my apartment, and across the nation, it was a good one.
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