Title bout

Apparently U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) (right) prefers to be called
"Congressman." That's how she describes herself on the web. It's even how she signs her name.
The National Organization for Women is not happy. “When they refer to themselves as congresswoman, this sounds different because it is different. I think that is significant,” said Latifa Lyles (above left), NOW's spokesm-, um, spokesw-, um, spokesperson.
Here's a crazy thought:
Compromise. Use Blackburn's official title, U.S. Representative. Same with Lyles, for that matter; it's Vice President. Then focus attention where it belongs, on the legislator's voting record.

On June 6, ...

... 1952, U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) was born in Laurel, Mississippi.
... 1984, on orders from Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (right), the Indian army attacked the Golden Temple in Amritsar, in Punjab, a state in the northern part of the country. Militants who contended that the Sikh minority there was suffering discrimination at the hands of India's Hindu majority had occupied the temple; Gandhi's government deemed them "terrorists." Operation Bluestar, as it was called, resulted in the deaths of well over 1,000 persons -- combatants and innocent civilians.