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November 18, 2006
Matthew Taylor II
Blood and Treasure (it's his bloggiversary you know!) is a wonderful man:
I don’t think that blogs are very influential anyway, and political blogs are only a small subset of general blogging. It couldn’t be that these sad, sad people are vanity googling themselves in the expectation of glowing reviews of their latest schemes for Moderate Progress, could it? Or having some prehensile flunky do it for them?
How their little faces must fall. Makes it seem all worthwhile.
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What's new? I seem to recall that John Wilkes Esq MP (1725-97) got into a spot of bother during the reign of George III for writing critical pamphlets about the king, his governments and ministers:
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/terrace/adw03/c-eight/people/wilkes.htm
http://www.storyoflondon.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=362&mode=mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Evidently, not a lot on that score has changed much since.
The cry of the mob was for Wilkes and Liberty!
"Wilkes was a member of the Hell-Fire Club, which met at Medmenham in Buckinghamshire for orgies and Black Masses. Another member was Lord Sandwich, the man who was famously so reluctant to leave the gaming table that he would order his food to be served between two slices of bread. When Lord Auckland wrote him a critical letter, Sandwich replied: 'Sir, Your letter is before me, and it will presently be behind me. I remain, sir, your most humble servant.' Not bad, but Wilkes was better. When Sandwich told Wilkes he would die either of the pox or on the gallows, Wilkes slammed back: 'That depends, my lord, whether I embrace your mistress or your principles.' Having been Wilkes's friend, Sandwich became his persecutor."
http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/boston_12_05.html
Posted by: Bob B | Nov 18, 2006 11:43:39 AM
