[honeychile]

If you drive through West Virginia, you see one Byrd Memorial Highway after another. I've heard that the state was only negotiable by mountain goat prior to his bringing so much pork to the state.

One of my claims to fame is that I was amidst a group of people for whom he fiddled - a square dance almost broke out! Senator Byrd was a token of an age where people grew up barefoot and made it to the Capitol. I may not have cared for his politics, and am happy that the pork will be better spread throughout more states, but he was a character. RIP.