Brits, rejoice! For we have a "functioning political culture."

[Cain]

And by functioning, it is apparently not meant to be taken as "runs very efficiently on spite and Machiavellian scheming".

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/opinion/24brooks.html

Just...just the whole thing.  Read it.  Quote favoured extracts to friends.  Try to hold it up to a decent light source and see if any parts of it align with the actually existing political system in the UK.  Print it off, turn it into paper airplanes and throw them at elected representatives.

[Adios]

Can missles be attached to the paper planes for maximum effect?

[MMIX]

And by functioning, it is apparently not meant to be taken as "runs very efficiently on spite and Machiavellian scheming".

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/opinion/24brooks.html

Just...just the whole thing.  Read it.  Quote favoured extracts to friends.  Try to hold it up to a decent light source and see if any parts of it align with the actually existing political system in the UK.  Print it off, turn it into paper airplanes and throw them at elected representatives.

I may have just died laughing

[Cain]

I especially like how Brooks thinks WWI doesn't count as some kind of "convulsion".  Apparently, neither did Ambassador Cambon, but then, for his reputation, he always was an airhead.

And for once, I find myself in total agreement with a Telegraph blogger http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielknowles/100089174/david-brooks-of-the-new-york-times-thinks-he-understands-great-britain-he-doesnt/

[MMIX]

I especially like how Brooks thinks WWI doesn't count as some kind of "convulsion".  Apparently, neither did Ambassador Cambon, but then, for his reputation, he always was an airhead.

And for once, I find myself in total agreement with a Telegraph blogger http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielknowles/100089174/david-brooks-of-the-new-york-times-thinks-he-understands-great-britain-he-doesnt/

Ooh, I loves me some of that polemic, even if it is from the Torygraph 

[Kai]