Senator-for-Life

I knew it would happen some day. Robert C. Byrd has died at 92. He eased poverty in West Virginia by redistributing billions of taxpayer dollars to his state.

I did receive a Robert C Byrd scholarship from 1996-2000 and I do not know how Louisiana received WV pork, but I did, and I thank him for that.

I will be respectful and avoid anything too mean for a while anyway, but I do not mourn a man who made it so long. He lived a good life, and is not related to me. Besides, a 92 year old Senator dying is not news, but inevitability