>Uh, maybe Mr. Wilson was channeling that other great 
>South Carolina politician Andrew Butler who beat the 
>Senator from Massachusetts with a cane over the head 
>(metaphorically,speaking). See:
>http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/The_Caning_of_Senator_Charles_Sumner.htm
> 
>and
>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-manatt/emsouth-carolinians-gone_b_283397.html
>  

*sigh* Folks, don't try to send to Tips while watching a baseball
game and, er, eating pizza, yeah, pizza, that's the ticket! :-)

It wasn't Andrew Bulter who caned Senator Sumner but
Preston Brooks.

And Derek Jeter now has more hits than Lou Gherig (i.e., he
has the most base hits by a Yankee in that  club's history).

-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu


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