Monday Ménage, With A Plus One: Dancing Bears and Asses

Gonzales. de Bono. Cooper. Isenberg.

 

Once upon a time there was a politician who made an especially conspicuous ass of himself and didn’t say the newspapers misquoted him. Robert Elliott Gonzales.

 

There’s a danger in the Internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous. Edward de Bono.

 

When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win. Nancy Isenberg.

 

Electoral gains by the far right in Europe have inspired American extremists to exchange their white robes and brown shirts for business suits in a bid to enter mainstream politics. Mary H. Cooper, ‘The Growing Danger of Hate Groups’, Editorial Research Reports, May 1989.

 

 

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