re: #264 petesh

I did not know that. Props to Sir George Cockburn.

Incidentally, Alex Cockburn who was always my favorite far-leftist for various reasons (1, he had a sense of humor; 2, in related news, he loved P.G. Wodehouse; 3, I was at college with his younger brothers and shared a dealer with one of them; 4, he at one point had columns in both The Nation and the Wall Street Journal) regularly boasted of being descended from the man who burned the White House.

Unfortunate name. Reminds me of a bad chafing incident many years ago.