THE COUNCIL OF NICE

versus THE COURSE OF TRICKLE DOWN:

What we need is a Council of Nice, and anyone who does not want to be, can go to a place of their own choosing or can choose who will tell them where to go, and see if that gets them there.

But seriously, it would be nice if we had a benevolent dictator, but would that really stop the blaming?

Talk about having a polarized choice...this should at least argue for more choice, but others think that even the argument is not needed. Where will that get us?

Apparently they think the ultimate place, and that is hard to argue.

[This was composed following the June 30th 20/20 and saved in draft after a few posts on their message board into July 1st and first emailed in present form on July 8th.]

THE LIAISON REPORT:
Between Common Sense and Kant
[Just a quick tangent on the topic of where this is coming from:]

My thinking is somewhere between what Bush thinks is common sense and just thinking that one is thinking. It may be all about me: a wannabe pundit, benevolent dictator and general do-gooder. But seriously, somewhere between what the press should have been wondering and where Bush wonders not.

But back from that tangent, a new book apparently has done much of the research on what I merely quipped about.[Hint: Not so far fetched, as the principle is that we would all love to be dictators.] But of course most people do not want to filter through what academics have worked on, but that is the point of his book, there are those that think they are free and those that don't know they are not. It may not be that simple, but it's title is: Conservatives Without Conscience by John Dean.

See Democracy in a Republic is not Black and White

Running on What? Rhetorical Slipperiness. for my comments about the problem of following no matter what.

For those who hate "hard work":
Some people will tell you where to go. Others will take you there.