I could not have put it better myself

"A bureaucrat is a bureaucrat, regardless of the bureau."

 Indeed they are. And a pox on all of them too.

(Via the Getting Your Hands Dirty blog)

Sign of the times: Noam Chomsky doesn't like Hugo Chavez anymore

Aww.

Noam Chomsky the noted linguistics scholar, MIT professor emeritus, and much bally-hooed libertarian anarchist political philosopher has come to his senses changed his mind and now believes that Chavez is just another Latin American strongman who is trying to establish permanent rule for himself based on his own cult of personality. Oh, and now Chavez admits to having cancer too.

Maybe there is some hope for Chomsky after all.