What About Thurston Howell III?

Best of the Web has an funny piece about a group of diplomats who are opposed to John Bolton as the new UN Ambassador:

Comiconomenclaturists for Bolton
A group of ex-diplomats have signed a letter to Sen. Richard Lugar, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, urging the rejection of John Bolton's nomination for ambassador to the U.N., because among other things Bolton is too pro-American.

Among the signatories, according to the Associated Press: "Princeton N. Lyman, ambassador to South Africa and Nigeria under Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Clinton; Monteagle Stearns, ambassador to Greece and Ivory Coast in the Ford, Carter and Reagan administrations; and Spurgeon M. Keeny Jr., deputy director of the Arms Control Agency in the Carter administration."

Princeton, Monteagle and Spurgeon--these are their first names! As reader Doug Welty asks, what do Fauntleroy and Poindexter think?

If you name your kid Princeton, Monteagle, Spurgeon, or even Thurston, you've pretty much committed your kid to life in foreign service. Sort of like naming your son Jeeves. No matter what he's good at, he's going to be a butler.