"Ye can make ye'ersilf as brave as ye want an' as cool, ye avide mussin' ye'er clothes, ye flavor with danger to suit th' taste, an' ye get a good dale more applause an' get it quicker thin th' other kind iv hayro. F'r manny years I've shot all me tigers fr'm this rockin' chair."
-- Finley Peter Dunne, 1899.
Quoted by Charlie Pierce, who would never, ever use this as an tee-up to go after the shameful new practice of awarding higher-than-Bronze-Star medals to the people sitting at their Game Boy consoles in Langley, Virginia, directing the drone attacks in Pakistan.
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