November 01, 2009
Life rarely arranges such pellucid political object lessons..
Dr. Weevil, on DeDe Scozzafava endorsing the Dem...
... Now that she's withdrawn and endorsed the Democratic candidate, can the Republican Party ask for their $900,000 back? Can individuals who contributed to her under the impression that she was a Republican ask for their money back?...
My opinion is that 900k is dirt cheap for a show-and-tell like this. Right now millions of Americans are feeling like the tongue-tied person who finally finds the needed word or phrase.
Maybe: Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret.
Posted by John Weidner at November 1, 2009 01:50 PMGesundheit!
John, could you please translate that for those of us whose last instruction in Latin was a few decades back....
And before you suggest it, the on-line translators are pretty lame.
Posted by: Hale Adams at November 1, 2009 08:27 PM"You can drive nature out with a pitchfork but she always comes back." Literally, "Nature can be expelled with a fork, but nevertheless always returns"
I just put that in for fun, in case Dr Weevil notices; He's a Latin teacher. Or maybe my son the classics student will notice.
I'm not a Latinist, I just encounter these things and save them....
Posted by: John Weidner at November 1, 2009 09:25 PM
