Athwart Sanity

As Thers points out, Dick "Dickie von Dickberg" Cohen actually wrote this paragraph:

The main virtue of the Biden-Gelb plan is that it does not stand athwart history. It enlists it. The volcanic eruption of nationalism and sectarianism that drenched the 20th century in blood -- the Holocaust above all -- has not yet run its course. The farmer and the rancher, to put things in Rodgers and Hammerstein terms, will not be friends.

I think we all remember the time in 'Oklahoma' when Curly invaded Ali Hakim (poor Eddie Albert).

There's a bright, golden haze on the meadow
There's a bright, golden haze on the meadow.
I am as high as that Tommy Chong guy
And my anger is rising toward the ji-had-diiiii!

Oh, let's torture this Mornin'
Let's waterboard Ali today.
I've got a beautiful feelin'
We'll Bomb Iran for denyin' their gay.