9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for January 29, 2007
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Transcript:
A Locutionary Field Guide to Earth (The hard little planet with the soft center) Democracy: noun, informal. A form of government in which people, faced with the prospect of self-rule, cast the job into an exclusive mire of unskilled panders. In earlier times, entire wars were waged for the stated purpose of protecting democracy. Now wars are waged to protect freedom, democracy having been abolished toward that end.
