Quick Note on the Koch Brothers

In my piece just now about the Koch brothers, a reader notes:  What you call “pathologically selfish” they would call “responsibility.”

They can call it whatever they like.  I’m reminded of a quote that supposedly came from a debate featuring Abraham Lincoln who found himself in a similar circumstance.  He asked “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?  The answer is four.  A tail is not a leg; it doesn’t matter what you call it.”