This is how the demos ends ...

Democracy began in Greece, and may well end there. This rather good video comes from AlJazeera, of all places in the world. It shows what happens when politicians buy votes by promising more than they can deliver: the voters burn the ... banks? (To be fair, they probably would have burned parliament if it had been easier to reach.)

Easy to feel superior to the Greeks, but aren't we doing the very same? Where Athens stands today, Sacramento could stand tomorrow, Albany the day after, and the District of Columbia the day after that. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford