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I think democracies are good political systems, but they're IMO overrated and too many people presume they have a monopoly on "good government". (Now if that ain't the furthest from the truth...) Most of what I have seen of the U.S. leadership's ideal for democracy is an export like a...

Yellow card to Ian for insults, and yellow card to Juve Kosova for retaliation. This is a landmine of a topic, but if people can't stick to the issues instead of the posters, suspensions are next... So please, let's try to keep cool heads and focus on the issues, not the posters. EDIT: Jeeks...

Some days I think that. On other days I look at how close things could have come in Oslo. Or I look at how Northern Ireland became a lot less hopeless over time by turning over the decision of self-elected national identity to the people who live there. (Something for the Kashmiris to aspire to.)

More accurately, everyone involved is the loser. I think people forget that on all sides.

The image the world has of America is mostly about those in the representative government. Which is why, for example, there's a huge base of Palestinian supporters in the Bay Area and yet the rest of the world wouldn't know nor expect it. Which is why thousands of marching Latinos in California...

It's really easy for me to be fat and stupid about this, living in a town called San Francisco where Native Americans were replaced by Spaniards and then replaced by westbound Anglos in search of gold and eastbound Chinese railroad laborers in search of work. But where does that all end? Who...

Man, I think the saddest part of this is that we have entire societies that measure their self-worth by their own perceived level of victimization. One of the biggest head-butts I see in the Middle East is that a lot of Israeli identity has gotten caught up in Jews being the world's whipping...