there’s an ingrained distrust in our society of highly intelligent, highly trained, highly competent persons. One need only look at the last presiden… - John Brunner

There's an ingrained distrust in our society of highly intelligent, highly trained, highly competent persons. One need only look at the last presidential election for proof of that.

Stand on Zanzibar is an information overload on topics that sensible people would never want to learn about.

It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.

This year we take our vacation somewhere else. Where is there where Americans aren’t likely to be stoned by a howling mob? Spain, Greece? No, got to be out of range of the stench from the Med.
Looks like we might as well stay home.