"I'll make those f*ckers glad to mutate." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt in Roosevelt after Inauguration by William Burroughs William Burroughs will never be an icon of the conservative movement. A proud junkie, an aggressive homosexual, a leader of both the Beat movement and the Counterculture, a man who shot his wife by "accident" while playing a party game, Burroughs was if anything the polar opposite of the conservative ideal. But there was one element of Burroughs' thought not altogether alien to conservatives: his opinion of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Relatively late in his career, Burroughs published a short piece titled Roosevelt after...
