Tag: democracy

July 4, 2016 / Vickie Lester

“Independence …. is loyalty to one’s best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.” Mark Twain

I love the fourth of July, but this year I am obsessed with what’s going on in the country that we got our independence from… “It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see….” “You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?” “No,” said Ford, who by this time…

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June 24, 2016 / Vickie Lester

What’s the world coming to… A post for the British friends of Beguiling, especially the dearest, George Kaplan, Sarah Vernon, and Pippa Rathborne

What’s the world coming to when two men with improbable hair (?) — one born to the elite, one shockingly elitist — both having deeply dysfunctional relationships with the truth, manipulate their way to power by fomenting fear among the very people they’ve brazenly exploited? Well, we get Britain trampling…

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October 17, 2013 / Vickie Lester

I Guess There is a Sanity Claus – with update, Hallelujah

Listen, I try to steer away from politics here — but these have been a tense few weeks. From left to right in the picture below: my uncle Robert, my mother, and my father. My uncle was a pilot in WWII, my father wrote code — he never spoke much…

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