Micah Tillman

I just got back from my local polling place. It was so much fun.
Fred Thompson is still on the ballot in Maryland. So I voted for Thompson. (*uproarious laughter*) But not only is Thompson on the ballot, you have to vote for delegates to the Convention separately.
Many of the delegates have their chosen candidate’s name [...]

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***Spoiler Alert*** (This post contains a discussion of M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village, so if you haven’t seen it, and don’t want the suspense ruined, read carefully.)
Plato wrote in The Republic, that his ideal city would require a noble lie. Since then, the noble lie has become a part of utopian and distopian [...]

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Robert Novak says that some people say Lou Dobbs is considering a run for President. This is the Lou Dobbs of War on the Middle Class, whose type Plato predicted in The Republic (564a-565d) while describing of the rise of tyranny out of democracy.
“Idlers” (or “drones”), says Plato, — the people who make their money [...]

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