The heretic is not punished for error: he is punished for heresy.
Aug 252014
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?
Aug 212014
Revolution gets awfully good press, considering its track record.
Aug 202014
That no one is above the Law is less a principle than a threat.
Aug 182014
Inflict the punishment, and the crime will be inferred.
Aug 052014
Anything can be conjured into existence by empowering a committee to suppress it.
Jul 212014
Leader: A megalomaniac whose luck has not yet run out.
Jul 032014
No one seeks power with a song in his heart.
Jun 252014
A well-conducted police state pardons a few prisoners now and then; this persuades the populace that the rest are guilty.
May 302014
If truth were ever spoken to it power would be grateful.
Apr 182014
The fiercest tribal warrior is the universalist.