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
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19 Buenos Tipos Con Armas Pero Sin Cojones
It’s Memorial Day weekend 2022, and since New Year’s Day, the United States of America has averaged three mass shootings every two days. Cerise’s latest issue of The New Yorker, which arrived in her mail yesterday, opened the Talk of the Town with a Comment entitled “Gun Country.” It concerned a massacre committed by one… Continue reading 19 Buenos Tipos Con Armas Pero Sin Cojones
NRA Plots a Massacre of the Facts
What with the Mayan Long Count Apocalypse just days a way, the president of Egypt behaving like a Pharaoh, Syria in the midst of a protracted rebellion, Israel madder at the Palestinians than an Orthodox rabbi who has caught his wife eating a bacon cheeseburger, the Chinese on the verge of armed conflict with both the… Continue reading NRA Plots a Massacre of the Facts