Election Day Musings

Some October entries and postscripts:10/1/2009Read article by Gore Vidal: “We’ll have a dictatorship soon in the US.”[10/1/2024: At 15 years, it’s an interesting juxtaposition that Jimmy Carter, a standard bearer of the spiritual nature of democracy turns 100 today]. 10/2/1998Interview on NPR with Serbian government official. The interviewer asked with rhetorical disbelief: ‘‘Isn’t there