def Sparse(Matrix):

Victor Davis Hanson makes a humorous rejoinder (well, humorous for VDH) to the best description I’ve heard yet of John Kerry.

With all due respect to Jonah (”After all, Kerry is an awful politician, a human toothache with the charisma of a 19th-century Oxford Latin tutor.” ), I had a lot of 19th-century Oxford Latin and Greek type-teachers. Believe me, for all their Anglo eccentricities, they were all funnier and more charismatic than Kerry. I’d rather listen any day to their lectures on the differences between sequences of tenses in Latin versus sequences of moods in Greek than snooze through Kerry’s contorted clarifications.

It’s surely a poor sign for our republic if men like Kerry can engender as much support as he did in 2004. But then, his competition was equally absurd.

*sigh* I miss Ronald Reagan.

~ by spmat on November 2, 2006.