Two deaths

MANIFESTO

Surely something can be made of the fact that Bozo the Clown and Jesse Helms died within twenty-four hours of each other.

Supporters of the hideous latter will no doubt make something of the fact that the closet Klansman died on July 4, thus making him a modern day Adams or Jefferson. I don't buy it, preferring to couple him with a character whose biggest thrill appeared to be having kids kiss his nose.

UPDATE — Sure enough, Feckless Leader opined that it was "fitting that this great patriot left us on the Fourth of July."