Legal Commentary

The Meteor

By Big Tent Democrat

I have not thought about Richard Cohen for a while, but Balloon Juice mentioned his latest stupidity ("Terry Jones, As Right As John Brown") and it made me think of The Portent:

Hidden in the cap
Is the anguish none can draw;
So your future veils its face,
Shenandoah!

But the streaming beard is shown
(Weird John Brown),
The meteor of the war.

You think they will be writing poems about Terry Jones? Anyway, Frederick Douglass said of John Brown:

His zeal in the cause of my race was far greater than mine – it was as the burning sun to my taper light – mine was bounded by time, his stretched away to the boundless shores of eternity. I could live for the slave, but he could die for him.

You think someone is going to write something like that about Terry Jones? Maybe Richard Cohen.

Open Thread.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 14, 2010 (boomark / email).