Thanks for the book tip, C. I don't have the time left before the (already multiply extended) deadline to add yet another to the reading list, but I'll note it for the next vol . . .
"to make everything so very bad that people will cry out for tyranny"
Unfortunately for their Machiavellian schemes, all they're succeeding in doing is making GOP support plummet; meanwhile support for Obama is up around the 68-75% mark, depending on the poll you choose -- a remarkable figure given that it's not that many weeks ago he got just 53% of the vote.
One could simply cackle and watch the fuckwits of the GOP doom their party for at least a generation, but it's not good for the country to be without a "loyal opposition". All governments, even the ones I support, require an effective, intelligent opposition to hone their ideas and keep them on course -- rather in the same way that even the best of authors need a competent editor, even if that editor changes not a comma. We all need some kind of a sounding board or we're likely to do silly things.
no subject
Thanks for the book tip, C. I don't have the time left before the (already multiply extended) deadline to add yet another to the reading list, but I'll note it for the next vol . . .
"to make everything so very bad that people will cry out for tyranny"
Unfortunately for their Machiavellian schemes, all they're succeeding in doing is making GOP support plummet; meanwhile support for Obama is up around the 68-75% mark, depending on the poll you choose -- a remarkable figure given that it's not that many weeks ago he got just 53% of the vote.
One could simply cackle and watch the fuckwits of the GOP doom their party for at least a generation, but it's not good for the country to be without a "loyal opposition". All governments, even the ones I support, require an effective, intelligent opposition to hone their ideas and keep them on course -- rather in the same way that even the best of authors need a competent editor, even if that editor changes not a comma. We all need some kind of a sounding board or we're likely to do silly things.
Well, all except me, of course.