Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.