The Dude condemns his crassitude

Burke is bummed. We need Bimm. (Sort of a pre-JibJab JibJab, if you will.)

PHILOSOPHER BIMM

Republicans think Jonas Bimm
A Democrat gone mad,
And Democrats consider him
Republican and bad.

The Tough reviles him as a Dude
And gives it him right hot;
The Dude condemns his crassitude
And calls him sans culottes.

Derided as an Anglophile
By Anglophobes, forsooth,
As Anglophobe he feels, the while,
The Anglophilic tooth.

The Churchman calls him Atheist;
The Atheists, rough-shod,
Have ridden o'er him long and hissed
"The wretch believes in God!"

The Saints whom clergymen we call
Would kill him if they could;
The Sinners (scientists and all)
Complain that he is good.

All men deplore the difference
Between themselves and him,
And all devise expedients
For paining Jonas Bimm.

I too, with wild demoniac glee,
Would put out both his eyes;
For Mr. Bimm appears to me
Insufferably wise!

By Ambrose Bierce (via Gutenberg)

[Not that I'm saying Bush and Kerry are morally equivalent. I just like the line about the Dude.]

Comments

[Jonathan Dresner]

I know the feeling. It's not easy being a moderate anything these days....

[bryan]

but does he abide?