U-Turn

POST 1130 From Wikipedia: A kakistocracy (/kækɪˈstɒkrəsi/, /kækɪsˈtɒ-/) is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens.[1]: 54 [2][3] The word was coined as early as the seventeenth century.[4] [emphasis JA] That term was coined then, but we’re reviving that dreadful threat right now. With obviously predictive value, here are two variations of… [read more]


What It Looks Like

POST 1129 We begin with a quotation from Anne Applebaum, writing in The Atlantic about the conditions that precipitated the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. “There is nothing worse than hopelessness, nothing more soul-destroying than pessimism, grief, and despair.” We shed no tears for this brutal dictator and murderer, but don’t imagine that because… [read more]


How We Fell Off the Sled – v 2.0

POST 1128 A short while back I wrote that We’ve Fallen Off The Sled because we really have been dumped from our metaphorical transportation to a more perfect union. I had a perfectly serviceable 9-point post detailing how we did that, but I’m quite sick of election postmortems (likely, you are, too), especially when all… [read more]


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