… is from George Will’s current column:
Leaving aside the seriousness of lawlessness, and the corruption of our civic culture by the professionally pious, this past week has been amusing. There was the spectacle of advocates of an ever-larger regulatory government expressing shock about such government’s large capacity for misbehavior.
As Thomas Sowell reminds us, reality isn’t optional. And humans are always human – even when they sport gaudy titles and win their jobs by persuading a majority of some group of voters to cast votes for them rather than for a different cast of hubris-lathered, self-important ruler-wannabes.
