[JZelle]

Please don't let us become the Netherlands!

[Rummyfan]

Already posted here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1376473/posts

with lots of comments! Of course a repost of Steyn is practically a requirement!

[martin_fierro]

Princeton Lyman? Monteagle Stearns? Spurgeon Keeny Jr.? If Norman Lear's shows had wacky characters like that, they would still be in syndication. It's a good rule of thumb that anything to which 59 economists, bureaucrats or diplomats are prepared to sign an open letter objecting is by definition a good thing. But that goes double when the 59 panjandrums lined up against you are Princeton Monteagle Jr, President Nixon's ambassador to the Spurgeon Islands; Spurgeon Monkfish III, President Ford's ambassador to the Lyman Islands; Dartmouth Monticello IV, President Johnson's personal emissary to His Serene Highness the Monteagle of Keeny; Columbia Long-Playing-Album, the first diplomat to be named by President Carter to the State Department's Name Control Agency; and Vasser Peachy-Keeny, the first woman to be named Vasser Peachy-Keeny. One sees their point, of course: Let a fellow called "John" Bolton become ambassador and next thing you know Earl and Bud will want the gig.

Soda, meet sinuses.