eCAHNomics @
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So a high school classmate of mine was an undergrad philospohy major at U. Chicago when Wolfie (one year ahead) was doing his PhD. My classmate & I had several dinners during which I tried, unsuccessfully, to figure out what Strauss was all about. Four years later I discover I’ve been asking the wrong Q. I asked what was so great about Strauss that they all followed him. The correct Q is what was wrong with them (Wolfie et al) that they all felt compelled to follow Strauss.

Framing c’est tout.

DING DING DING!

Strauss was the darling of everybody who’d ever read Plato’s Republic, and thought they were naturals for the Philosopher Kings.

He’s little more than a fetid amalgamation of Plato, Machiavelli, Metternich, Hobbes and Baltasar Gracian jumbled together.

IOW, the ultimate corrupt, lethally delusional, “screw everybody I’m getting mine” meglaomaniacs.

Update: Forgot to add Oreck XL-rivaling suckups to power.

Oh yes, I was there (by accident) hoping to study political theory/thought/philosophy. Unfortunately, it soon dawned on me that I had walked into a cult – really. Code words. In jokes. A bunch of people who wrote down every word spoken by the Master, even though every course was the same. A sense of superiority and condescension among people who believed they were among the “few” rather than the “many” (read ancients versus moderns). After a while, I fled. Imagine having this all come back to me some thirty-five years later, not as theory, but as – well – war.

Talk about melodogmatic.

It’s fascinating to me, also, how Liz Cheney and her husband, Philip Perry, drift around in the almost-top levels of government departments. As near as I can tell, she’s been in and out at State in several different jobs, and Perry’s been at DoJ as well as the General Counsel at DHS and OMB.

There must be tasks not even the made men can be asked to do, for which BigTime relies only on family, you think?

Absoltively.

dakine01 @
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TeddySanFran @
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Hello, all.

I was very pleased WaPo revealed the Liz Cheney connection to the Wolfowitz scandal, considering Fred Hiatt violated his own policies earlier this week in not identifying her as the Veep’s daughter. Gotta love that WaPo firewall protecting the Opinionists from the Facts!

A couple of nights ago, someone posted that she had sent a note to Hiatt calling him on it. I forget when and whom, but if I remember the response, it was something along the lines of La Cheney is an accomplished adult in her own right, so shouldn’t be ID’d by her father.

The Tracy Press article states the Board approached DOE (after initially refusing the dirty bomb permit) and invited DOE to re-sumbit their application -

with that behavior, I’m not confident the Board (all local politicos) will do anything but roll over for DOE/Livermore.