Wednesday, December 10, 2008

How Will History Remember Rod Blagojevich?

For Charles Richter, it was seismic energy.

Friedrich Mohs had mineral hardness.

Measuring temperature is the claim to fame of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit and Anders Celsius, and Lord William Thomson Kelvin.

And, for Sir Francis Beaufort and Tetsuya Fujita, it was wind speed and tornado intensity, respectively.

In the future, will the moral character of political officials will be measured on the Blagojevich Scale, or will the unit of measurement thereof be known as the Blago?