OTHER A Word From Joe Louis

Until John Hinderaker at Powerline pointed it out, I hadn’t realized that the “he can run but he can’t hide” line that President Bush has been using on the campaign trail and in Friday night’s debate was actually coined by boxer Joe Louis. Another example of how sports shapes our language and view of the world. Go read Hindrocket’s whole writeup on Louis and the phrase’s origin.
(Of course, for historical accuracy it’s not quite right to call Louis just “the Bomber” – he was known as the Brown Bomber (it was the 1930s-40s, after all; no need to sugarcoat the world Louis lived in and had to contend with)).