The omnipotent state regards not the individual, but the family, as its most dangerous enemy. The individual it can use; the family it can do nothing with.
Dec 032020
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 202020
Every new law represents a new opportunity to report our neighbors anonymously to the authorities.
Nov 132020
Censorship, under more competent rule, would indicate something worth reading.
Nov 112020
Americans are ruled by a government that intrudes in every conceivable matter yet cannot count its population, its votes, or its dead.
Nov 092020
The great trick of governance, as yet imperfectly mastered, is to loot without having to fight.
Nov 062020
The lower your class, the more time and humiliation it costs you to collect your dole.
Oct 212020
There are people who understand the power of speech, and people who oppose restrictions on speech, but rarely the same people.
Oct 082020
Any country that allows its citizens to vote is at least obliged to make it difficult.
Oct 052020
Greatest Evils of Communism
1. Millions dead
2. Widespread use of the term “bougie”
Sep 292020
Recycling laws exist to remind you that your rulers, though they have nothing to charge you with, can force you to sort through your garbage.