Aug 12 2009

Yes, They Really Are Mad As Hell

“She had spent her lifetime in the town, and it was
easy to know who everyone was and where everyone
lived.”
— John O’Hara in Ten North Frederick, a novel
about life in small town Pennsylvania
 

I am not a Nazi
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Jul 23 2009

Oh Please Don’t Throw Me into that Brady Patch, Ms. Pelosi!

I can understand corruption; simple venality is easily fathomed: A person with a broken moral compass (or none at all) sees ethical behavior as mere obstacle, so he finds a way to squirm around it to get what he wants anyway.
But what offends me most about nearly every act of political corruption is the [...]