On 26/11/2015 18:51, Albert Zweistein wrote:
On 26/11/2015 18:47, Jeff Layman wrote:
On 26/11/15 17:40, Albert Zweistein wrote:

BTW Oscar Wilde said "patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel"
and it's still true to this day.

If he did, he was just repeating what Samuel Johnson had said a hundred
years earlier in 1775.

Well **** me, you're right, all this time I've been giving Oscar props
he may not have deserved.

He actually said this "Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious" which is
nearly as good. IMHO of course.