Having started out this morning’s postings with a remark about hillbilly humor, and now reading the exchanges about cousin marriage, the temptation to launch into kissin’-cousin jokes is very strong.

I shall manfully resist. You won’t be hearing any jokes from me with punchlines like: “If she ain’t good enough fer her own kin, she ain’t good enough fer us.” No Sir, not from me. No way. Nope.