To be powerful relieves one of the obligation to be interesting.
Nov 282013
Ruling
In ’37 Stalin made a hash
Of party loyalists and army brass.
Decimation: One in ten are shot.
What’s the word when one in ten are not?
Nov 062013
Policy begets policy.
Nov 052013
Political corruption used to be friction; now it is lubrication.
Nov 012013
Nobody says “it’s the law” about a good law.
Oct 152013
Universal suffrage enforces a universal delusion of special competence in politics.
Oct 042013
People will stand for hardship from their rulers but not for insult.
Sep 202013
There are always and everywhere two political parties: the Ins and the Outs. The rest is advertising.
Sep 192013
The people never means quite all of them.
Aug 302013
No one wants equality except with his betters.
Aug 292013
Those who attack the status quo on the grounds that nothing could be worse are usually proposing something worse.