Tag: political expediency

  • Everybody’s a Critic

    • You can’t hide. The truth will find you sooner or later.

    “Um, excuse me: did you know your zipper was undone?”

    In a recent post in this blog I made some comments critical of the Obama administration’s policies toward official transparency and truthfulness in government, comments which have been interpreted as negative toward the administration as a whole. Yes, my observations were critical, but as we move into the silliness and bombast of this year’s general election, I think it’s very important to remember just what “critical” really means.

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  • Tattletale

    • They just don’t want to hear it.

    When I was a little boy, I quickly learned to stay abreast of the list of dos and don’ts that my parents maintained: as in Socrates’ conception of virtue, the rules might evolve from one day to the next, but the requirement to observe them did not.

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