Modern medicine betrays the heritage of leeches and surgery without anesthetics In what has to be the stupidest stretch of logic -- today, at least -- in the ongoing dialogue over the removal of Confederate monuments, the Virginia GOP posted a weirdass condemnation of Democratic Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam, who's now running for governor (Terry McAuliffe is term-limited). You see, Northam has called for the removal of Civil War Participation Trophies, since they honor actual traitors to the USA, and were mostly erected to reinforce the post-Reconstruction myth of the "Lost Cause" -- historically, they have more to do with reinforcing white supremacy than anything else. Ah, but the state GOP thought it had a