Revolutions spare nothing but the machinery of the state at which they are ostensibly directed.
Jan 132014
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?
Dec 252013
Constant surveillance is the vocation of the police and the avocation of everyone else.
Dec 092013
Yesterday the great enemy of democracy was distinction of birth; today it is distinction of wealth; tomorrow it will be distinction.
Dec 042013
Uncivilized colonists enslave the natives; civilized colonists exterminate them.
Nov 282013
To be powerful relieves one of the obligation to be interesting.
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 promotes a universal delusion of special competence in politics.
Oct 042013
People will stand for hardship from their rulers but not for insult.