At long last, after years of campaigning, rallies and rhetoric, and after billions of dollars spent to sway the opinions of a tiny sliver of the electorate residing in seven of its fifty states, the US 2024 elections have concluded. The people have spoken, and what they said was Donald John Trump will be the… Continue reading American Democracy 1776 – 2024
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2024 Election Crosses the Godwin Event Horizon
As regular readers of this Web log know, when my older sister Rose has a day off from work as a school teacher in Fairfax, Virginia, she often meets me for lunch at a good restaurant in downtown Washington. Today, however, she took a day off volunteering with the Kamala Harris for President campaign, which… Continue reading 2024 Election Crosses the Godwin Event Horizon
Useful Idiots’ Delight
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
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
A Kennedy Off-Center Visit
As the Memorial Day weekend hails the start of summer in America (yes, the Rest of the World, I know summer actually begins in June in the Northern Hemisphere, but the last weekend in May is when we Yanks traditionally get our first beach sunburns and barbecue heartburns of the year) those of us not… Continue reading A Kennedy Off-Center Visit