International Politics Some Thanksgiving Musings The old saying is that politics is show business for ugly people. I am now convinced it's high school for slow learners.
International Politics What Rodney Could Have Taught Vivek Not only is his overwrought and seemingly tireless debating style hitting the crowd as distinctly joyless, but maddening as well. It seems that no moderator, Fox or NBC, can convince him to put a sock in it. It's like the worst High School Class President contest ever.
US History The Second Casualty "Nothing seems to have changed in a century and a half. Humans are still killing other humans because of their differing gods or how they look, or the things they believe... and the children still fall first."
International Politics OK. Uncle! I Give Up. I am inclined to frankly, give up. The forces of commerce and human inertia are too strong. Politicians on the take, the companies that take them, and our own reluctance when confronted with change, will doom it.
