Jefferson | lullaby pit

Shootout at the DC Corral

Posted on 2010.03.03 by Bonesparkle 14 comments

The independently minded political animal always wrestles with times of transition, and the changeover from the Bush to Obama regimes has been worse than most. During the Dubya years it was easy to identify the enemy and to hate him with a blinding passion. Sweet Jesus, George II and his sidekick, The Dick Cheney, played their roles with less nuance

Politics/Law/Government

Democracy & Elitism 4: equality, opportunity and leveling up the playing field

Posted on 2010.01.04 by winterSmith 79 comments

Pulitzer- and Emmy-winner William Henry‘s famous polemic, In Defense of Elitism (1994), argues that societies can be ranked along a spectrum with “egalitarianism” on one end and “elitism” on the other. He concludes that America, to its detriment, has slid too far in the direction of egalitarianism, and in the process that it has abandoned the elitist impulse that made