Being an unabashed homophobe who condones and aides the psychological torture of gay people is hardly a tittle.

I have no interest in her jot or either of her tittles.

--though a "jot" and "tittle" used together in a sentence could also come from the Baron Munchausen film. ;)

she's a total nut case, but yeah, that was cool to learn. I love that the dot on "i" has a name.

So what's a "tittle?"

if she's so sure that every jot & tittle of her life will be looked at and inspected in her run for President, how is she also blathering on about Obama's birth certificate? Did they not look at every jot and tittle of his life?

I was under the impression the dots on dice were called pips.

One look at that word and a nightmare from my childhood came rushing back. Jot was a cartoon character on TV Sunday mornings, produced by the Southern Baptist Convention. He was used to recruit innocent children into the depraved and immoral Baptist lifestyle (they also had a radio show that was a ripoff of American Top 40 called Powerline that only featured secular music with hidden moral messages).

http://www.toonarific.com/show.php?show_…

"Jot N' Tittles" would be a great name for a strip club.

Tonite @ the choote-spa: jot 'n tittles half off, cum and gettim folks they'r agonna go fast.... wooo-hoo.

And "dots" are new things under the sun, relatively speaking ... and unlike "tittles" may be derived from a word for nipples. Remarkable.

In extensive international exposure to dicecraft, BTW, I don't recall ever hearing pips called tittles.

@11

As in "Fancy a jot and tittle guv'na?"

@14: I like the guv'na part; but i think most cockney rhyming slang is more akin to crazy shit like this:

jot and tittle ---> swittle

swittle ---> the green bean farts your slag of a sister made in the dole office Tuesday last.

(why they would say jot and tittle instead of the shorter swittle only adds to the fuckery)

Wasn't that a Squeeze song?

No, wait.

That's slap and tickle.

She was frigid like a bible
When she met her boyfriend michael
He took her in his zephyr
They sat like salt and pepper

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auJ_wkSxi…

A beard says jot?

Seriously, I've been a gamer almost my entire life and I never knew what those little dots on dice were called. I assumed dots.
Well you know what they say about assumptions. Thanks, Michelle Bachman.

"Jot" is Hebrew for vaginal canal. "Tittle" is Greek for clitoris.

I swear....

Kinda scary that you work for a print publication and have never heard of "jot and tittle" (which refer to diacritical marks in typography, or minor details). Just sayin'. (I don't expect SLOG commenters to be literate. Maybe it shouldn't surprise me that staffers at The Stranger aren't much interested in precision or punctuation?)

Is it even scarier that you have to learn about typography from, of all people, Michele Bachmann?

I'm just surprised it's the first time Paul's run across it as a book editor/voracious reader. I was at this jot & tittle party much earlier and I'm functionally illiterate, like @20 would expect.

@ 6 has this spot on. This woman obsessed about whether or not Obama was a citizen, and then turns around and says her private life -- including her business dealings -- should be off-limits. I know she and her husband are homophobes, and that's got to be challeged, but the issue that can't really be spun if treated correctly is her hypocrisy over federal money (railing against the feds even as her and her husband's business accepts federal dollars). It's a simple question: if she believes in limited government, why does she accept this money? If you want to challenge her on her homophobia, a similar question could be, if you truly believe in limited government, why do you think government should play any role in governing the relationships of consenting adults?

Her supposed libertarianism is not only her vulnerability (because she, like so many other conservatives, doesn't practice what she preaches for other folks), but can be challenged in this way -- and her attempts to label such things as "personal" will certainly go over fine with her base, but will more likely marginalize her more with fence-sitters. It's the way things work these days; once folks reach a certain level of status, they are effectively a brand (Palin is a perfect example), and the only way to diminish them is to diminish their brand, the idea of who they are, which is the thing their base and light-to-moderate supporters respond to.

Not surprising that she's use that biblical phrase, as many fundies are just cliche machines.
Also not surprising that she misused the phrase somewhat. It really refers to textual details, like an in-depth review of a judge's decisions. Bachmann doesn't have much of a literary record to review. She meant more of a "nook & cranny" kind of review, but that would have sounded weird.