Popular government demands that the people play all roles at once: oppressor and oppressed, ruler and ruled, disenfranchised by vote, silenced by cacophony.
Jul 172015
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?
Jul 142015
Stupidity at an immense age becomes instrumental rationality, just as crime on an immense scale becomes statecraft.
Jul 062015
The best one can ever say for a policy is that it has not been obviously ruinous.
Jun 112015
Unduly harsh sentences indicate not law and order, but its opposite: that almost no one gets caught.
Jun 102015
Hate speech, n. Speech you hate.
Jun 032015
The bore is the tyrant of private life.
May 262015
There can be no tyranny without opacity.
May 062015
Every party looks its best out of power.
Apr 202015
Love has done nothing to stop wars, but marriage has prevented quite a few.
Apr 152015
In politics you can be right as long as you don’t care if you win, or win as long as you don’t care if you’re right.