The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

What people don't seem to ever understand is that any infrastructure that exists under your regime, in your current government, will be appropriated and inherited by the next regime. I mean, the KGB came out of the NKVD which came out of the Tsarist version of the same thing. And now, the FSB operates out of the old KGB building in Moscow. The infrastructure remains exactly the same. There's a little bit of reshuffling of personnel, and that's it. The way to make sure that there's no FSB today would have been for the Tsar to not have built an infrastructure for it in the 1800s.

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.

Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

Do our government's poorly paid contract killers deserve our 'support' for blindly following orders?

Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.