Mr. Grumpy (242 years ago)

“Most accursed, wicked, barbarous, cruel,

unnatural, unjust and diabolical.”

William Pitt the Younger, during Parliamentary debate on Feb. 26, 1781

Pitt was talking about the American Revolutionary War. Talk about your basic poor loser…

He served in Parliament during the war, and became Britain’s prime minister in 1783, in time to be his country’s front man during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Neither of these assignments was an easy gig.

Pitt (1759-1806) was well respected during his lifetime, but obviously he never listened to his mother when she got on his case about “If you don’t have anything good to say,…”

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A moment of delight

A bit of rain at the beach…

“Lingering,” a bit of a nature poem

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