...the most advanced democracy in the world.
How can this phrase be made to drip with sufficient irony, sarcasm and venom to convey the pathetic standard which it describes? As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
What?? Why're you looking at me like that? It does sound like an empty slogan, and I've just been travelling for seven hours straight...
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.