For those of us increasingly fed up with the slovenly moral relativism of the cognoscenti, John Derbyshire is, as always, a voice of reason, most recently about the recent flap over the Koran that wasn't burned:
 
"I know a lot of Christians, but I'm pretty sure not one of them would be out in the streets of New York protesting if Reuters reported that some mosque in Baluchistan was having a burn-the-Bible day."

We may not deserve an Edmund Burke (shown above), but we've damned nearly got one in Derb (shown here).. I wonder if talking to him while taking shelter from the rain would be as revelatory as Dr. Johnson said doing likewise with Burke was: "You could not stand five minutes with [Edmund Burke] beneath a shed while it rained without going away aware you had been in the presence of genius." Probably not; even the best of us don't match up to the luminaries of the Great Eighteenth.