Inflict the punishment, and the crime will be inferred.
Aug 182014
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 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.
Apr 092014
One ought to be a bit embarrassed to win an election.
Apr 032014
The basest viciousness usually wraps itself in a hygienic metaphor.
Mar 312014
Only after he has exhausted his other resources does the boy begin to torture insects, or the ruler his subjects.