A life in words

  • Power Grab

    The Paulson Plan is a dud. No, wait, I take it back. It’s not a dud; it’s a naked, heinous reach for power; it’s a very public, very pricey Gentlemen’s Club asking for government financing; it’s not just unnecessary, it’s a swindle. Lessons from Fiction To a degree, this is an example of life imitating…

  • Worse Than The Disease

    NO!!! Forget about the election. Forget about the war. Forget about it all, because by the time you vote in November, the stupidest thing the government’s done in a long, long time will already have gone down, and it’s gonna be too late. SEVEN HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS??? To do what? To save the butts of…

  • Obamanomists

    If the economic policy of Barack Obama is “Obamanomics,” then its practitioners must be “Obamanists.” Interesting. Here are some articles from opposite ends of the political spectrum discussing Obama’s economics proposals and ideas. I found both of them to be informative and to provide much excellent food for thought. The New York Times one is…

The principal difficulty lies, and the greatest care should be employed in constituting this Representative Assembly. It should be in miniature, an exact portrait of the people at large. It should think, feel, reason, and act like them. That it may be the interest of this Assembly to do strict justice at all times, it should be an equal representation, or in other words equal interest among the people should have equal interest in it. Great care should be taken to effect this, and to prevent unfair, partial, and corrupt elections.John Adams, Thoughts on Government, April 1776