One-time home run king had an ignorance of language

We must define our terms

To make us love our country, said Edmund Burke, our country ought to be lovely.

Indeed, most of the land mass is beautiful. I’m a native Oregonian and the natural beauty of my home country, as far as I’m concerned, is second to none.

Beauty and loveliness don’t equate, however.

Burke was concerned with a country’s “distinct system of manners.” The national…