Eugene David<br>...The One-Minute Pundit

Posted 7:16 PM by Gene

Running through some past posts to reassure myself of my brilliance (hardy-har-har), I came across the former Sen. Foghorn Leghorn. And I thought, whatever became of that cartoon character anyhow? Not much; he rates only about seventeen entries in GoogleNews, most regarding his son, who's running for the honorary post of South Carolina's lieutenant governor. As for the cluckcluckclucking dad, he resides in Charleston, perhaps not quite as important as before, but he did "write a letter" to DR. EVIL on the occasion of THE CONSPIRACY's HQ being named for him.

Or as Henry Adams wrote,

The type of Senator in 1850 [like Foghorn] was rather charming at its best, and the Senate, when in good temper, was an agreeable body, numbering only some sixty members, and affecting the airs of courtesy. Its vice was not so much a vice of manners or temper as of attitude. The statesman of all periods was apt to be pompous, but even pomposity was less offensive than familiarity -- on the platform as in the pulpit -- and Southern pomposity, when not arrogant, was genial and sympathetic, almost quaint and childlike in its simple-mindedness; quite a different thing from the Websterian or Conklinian pomposity of the North....

[A]ny one could be President, and some very shady characters were likely to be. Presidents, Senators, Congressmen, and such things were swarming in every street.

P. S. I can find no mention on House and Senate sites of the "remarks" four such things expectorated on DR. EVIL this past June 22. How odd. How predictable.