[lbo-talk] Pure beautiful scorn

[Gar Lipow]

On Dec 22, 2007 11:59 PM, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
>
> >> For succinctness on the topic, I wonder if anyone can beat Kipling:
> >
> > Possibly Byron:
> >
> > Posterity shall ne'er survey
> > A nobler grave than this.
> > Here lie the bones of Castlereigh;
> > Stop, traveller, and piss.
>
> Well there's Norman Ewer's:
>
> How odd
> of God
> to choose
> the Jews

I wonder if it is still on the topic of scorn for tyrants. Not sure it
is even aimed primarily at tyrants, but even if it is aimed at
antisemites or possibly God, seems to be tossing jellybeans, not
thunderbolts.