A Reign of Terror...

 "To condone or excuse murder is to be an accessory after the fact. To instigate murder by means of demonization of half the country is to put the gun or knife into the killer's hands. To pretend that you had nothing to do with it is cowardice of a sort that requires it's own, unique form of death penalty..." -- The Overlord

Hollow Be They Name, Part Two...

 "The various forms of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the People as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; by the magistrate as equally useful..." -- Edward Gibbon, "Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire"

Parasites...

 "But was there ever a dog that praised his fleas?" - William Butler Yeats

Farewell to Babylon...

 "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man..." -- Heraclitus

You All Suck (#54a - 2022 Midterm Edition Introduction)

 "It is hateful to me to retell a story over again when it has been well told..." -- Homer, "The Odyssey"

Douchebag of the Week (Week Ending 9/3/2022 - "Governor" Kathy Hochul)

"If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it -- too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul -- the result is bound to be complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds..." -- Plato

Cuomo Watch #2 ...

 "Hubris is one of the great renewable resources..." -- P.J. O'Rourke

"If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it -- too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul -- the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always brings..." -- Plato

A Majority of One (Notes from The Dungeon Edition)

"There is a good deal to be said for internment. It keeps you out of the saloon and helps you to keep up with your reading. The chief trouble is that it means you are away from home for a long time. When I join my wife I had better take along a letter of introduction to be on the safe side." -- P.G. Wodehouse, remarks on his internment by the Nazis.

Impeachment Cost Lives...

"Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it..." -- Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism"