Meritocracy replaces aristocracy with bureaucracy.
Dec 052019
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 292019
Many modern ills trace to the fateful decision to teach stupid people how to read.
Nov 262019
When you destroy a large tribe you produce a lot of smaller ones.
Nov 152019
The capitalists will sell the communists the rope with which they will jointly hang the remaining holdouts against our glorious corpo-progressive future.
Nov 142019
It has always conferred status to consume tax revenue, and opprobrium to produce it.
Nov 132019
Everyone is in favor of upward social mobility; the other direction is more controversial.
Nov 042019
Censorship, like any other government function, can be outsourced.
Oct 292019
The three dominant political ideologies of the past century are fascism, communism, and autism.
Oct 242019
There is in America an unbridgeable psychological divide, made manifest every April 15th, between those who receive checks from the government and those who write them.
Oct 232019
Somehow, in democracies, a great many policies get implemented that almost no one will admit to being in favor of.