H. Pompous on AJ
Elevating the comment from H. Pompous on my original Andrew Jackson entry to the main page:
An addendum to The Apostrophe's fact about Old Hickory and that treaty with the French: it was signed in blood, all right, but not his own. Andrew Jackson always signed any binding* document in another man's blood. Usually that of an Indian. Or of a Supreme Court Justice.
*"binding," of course, only in the sense that it bound the party or parties who were not Andrew Jackson. Andrew Jackson answers to neither man nor God. In fact, Jesus has indefinitely postponed the second coming ever since He went into hiding after He broke his lease by moving out six weeks early from an apartment complex owned by Jackson for fear that His former landlord would exact wildly disproportionate retribution for the cigarette burns in the carpet. Andrew Jackson, for his part, had no recollection of this one-month's deposit nonsense, it was brand new carpet, damn it, and you weren't supposed to smoke inside, anyway, Jesus.
An addendum to The Apostrophe's fact about Old Hickory and that treaty with the French: it was signed in blood, all right, but not his own. Andrew Jackson always signed any binding* document in another man's blood. Usually that of an Indian. Or of a Supreme Court Justice.
*"binding," of course, only in the sense that it bound the party or parties who were not Andrew Jackson. Andrew Jackson answers to neither man nor God. In fact, Jesus has indefinitely postponed the second coming ever since He went into hiding after He broke his lease by moving out six weeks early from an apartment complex owned by Jackson for fear that His former landlord would exact wildly disproportionate retribution for the cigarette burns in the carpet. Andrew Jackson, for his part, had no recollection of this one-month's deposit nonsense, it was brand new carpet, damn it, and you weren't supposed to smoke inside, anyway, Jesus.
posted by JLD at 09:16
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