Personal animus and thwarted ambition explain a lot more defections than we all like to admit. Matters of high principle are pretty low on the list. (View Post)

Captain Renault applies. (View Post)

Downside of the "direct electoral accountability for everything" model that the USA tends towards. Some things are better done by technocrats working to explicit and democratically-agreed m… (View Post)

They can commute, like the rest of us. (View Post)

More Cretin than Cretian. (View Post)