I would vote if it cost enough.
Dec 022021
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 082021
Punishment must be harsh when it is neither swift nor sure.
Oct 262021
A philosopher once noted that jaywalking could be prevented by executing offenders. This may not be a point in favor of executions for jaywalking; but it is certainly a point in favor of executions.
Oct 062021
Big business has long aspired to be big government’s executor, and it nears its end.
Sep 292021
Books that are buried need not be burned.
Sep 212021
No political ideology, according to its advocates, has ever really been tried.
Sep 202021
One should fear, not the man who insists he is in charge, but the man who insists that he is not.
Sep 172021
We punish speech because we have yet to devise an effective way to punish thought.
Sep 142021
The logic of stealing an election demands the vigorous suppression of claims that it was stolen.
Sep 072021
The world has always fought over ideas, whose truth is at best a minor strategic advantage.