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Daniel McCarthy gives a huzzah to John Wilkes, the bawdy poet, jailbird, deadbeat, tomcat, and father of civil liberty.
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|8.3.06 @ 1:46PM|#
"Wilkes and Liberty!"
|8.3.06 @ 1:48PM|#
Good article. We could use a few characters like him in modern politics. If national politics is going to be a circus, we might as well get entertainment to go along with the elephant and donkey shit.
|8.3.06 @ 1:55PM|#
Wilkes is also the author of the best insult in the English language:
Earl of Sandwich: "Pon my honor, Wilkes, I don't know whether you'll die on the gallows or of the pox."
Wilkes: "That must depend, my Lord, upon whether I first embrace your Lordship's principles or your Lordship's mistresses."
|8.3.06 @ 2:04PM|#
A true Son of the South.
John Wilkes Booth named after him?
I know Robert Frost was named after Robert E. Lee.
|8.4.06 @ 7:40AM|#
Very interesting, and not the type of thing I would have expected to come across otherwise. Thanks.