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No Man is an Island

They say no man is an island, but they are wrong–it turns out Roosevelt was.  It says so.  And who is the proverbial “they”?   John Donne, Thomas Merton, and Dennis Brown apparently.  Never knew that who Frank Sinatra was talking about in his song “They Can’t Take That Away From Me.”

The question is which Roosevelt was an island?  Was it FDR?  Probably not, and I don’t just mean that because he had polio.  OK, partially I do.  What? I’m just saying it wouldn’t be a very stable island (Too soon?).

Was it Teddy?  That just doesn’t seem right.  I mean he already has a head at Mount Rushmore, he shouldn’t get to be an island and a mountain.  Although islands are kind of like mountains in the ocean with their peaks exposed.

I think it was Eleanor.  She was man enough to be an island.