I comment on Balgojevich’s selective quotation from Kipling’s “If” in a New York Times column this morning. A colleague notes that many Democrats might have preferred that Blagojevich had sought guidance (metaphorically, not literally, one hastens to add) from another Kipling work, “The Young British Soldier”

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,

And the women come out to cut up what remains,

Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains

An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.