When the media began saying that Roland Burris would accept the Senate seat even if he were expelled the next day because he wanted it on his tombstone,, I thought it was a metaphor.

But no. Jefferson settled for three boasts, and left a request in his will; Burris already put up the marble, and included his time as a foreign exchange student. Poor man, to be so driven.

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