I rather enjoyed Mr Wells writing too, thanks. Scanning his sidebar listing, well he covers some curious ground.

There were a number of pearls*, unfortunately I only thought to take note again near the end of his front page.

peaceably

Did the Clinton team hack the New Hampshire vote? Bradblog makes its usual strong case for electoral fraud, but I'm finding it hard to get my indignant mojo working. Because here's the thing:

*even when the system works as advertised it contemptuously defrauds and disenfranchises citizens who take their politics like detached spectators*.

Obama and Clinton are two contenders in a fight club of closed ranks and consensus brutality with interchangeable corners. The outcome of this contest for advancement upon our lives - American lives and everyone else with a seat at the arena - will mean just as much as who wins the Super Bowl or the Oscar, should we have any emotional investment in the outcome of those contests. Because

*the only change to be registered will be how we feel about it. That's supposed to be enough*,

and it's been that way long enough that for many, it is. ~~~ *...power knows no natural decency.* -I just love simple elegance, ahhh! ... But that is to miss the point, of this story and so many like it. It's not the hypocrisy, stupid:

*it's about the nature of power itself, who is allowed a measure of it, and what they have over their heads*.