We denizens of the Washington DC metropolitan area who work inside the Beltway know quite well who Dick Cheney is. Most people in the United States, however, have at best a hazy idea of him. And certainly, there is no particular reason why the international readers of this Web log, who are legion, would know… Continue reading Useful Idiots’ Delight
Category: Society and Trends
Hillbilly Soliloquy
Since my last post, for the first time since World War II, Russia was invaded. Inexperienced and unwilling Russian conscripts threw down their weapons and readily surrendered as battle-hardened Ukrainian troops took ground in the western Kursk region, maneuvering behind the Russian artillery, missile and rocket resources that Putin had been using to attack “strategic… Continue reading Hillbilly Soliloquy
MAGA Think Tank Spills Wannabe Dictator’s Beans
Ninety-seven days before what very well may be the last free election held in the United States of America, the public reaction to the departure of Joseph Biden from the presidential race highlights just how disenchanted the Democratic voter base was with him. When he announced his withdrawal and subsequently more or less anointed Kamala… Continue reading MAGA Think Tank Spills Wannabe Dictator’s Beans
A Fable for Our Time
Long, long ago, in the days of Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson, there was a storybook neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia, called Dominion Hills. It was a prosperous place – quiet, middle class, very respectable and lily white. The people who lived there all either worked for the one of the many federal government agencies, served in… Continue reading A Fable for Our Time
Silence of the Gats
The proposition that democracy is an imperfect form of government is nothing new. Plato wrote a book about his proposed alternative, where a class of philosopher kings would replace the rule of the people, and this year is the two-thousand four-hundredth anniversary of his writing it. Who would actually be good enough, wise enough, just… Continue reading Silence of the Gats