Dead white Men get No Respect

Pity the dead. Even when they are spot on with predictions, prescriptions, and proscriptions and have remarkable insight to eternals of human action, and even when they were truly heroic in life, they don't get no R-E-S-P-E-T.

Did anyone read any of my post from George Washington's farewell address. It really is worth a read. Once you get used to the language, much of it could have been written yesterday.

If he came back today, if he could get out of Gitmo, he would be a powerful voice for liberty. But he is dead, a fate worse than the D list.