The radio talk show on KMED in Oregon was lots of fun yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0 Host Bill Meyer has thought long and hard about the problem of ignorant voters and government off the leash.\u00a0 Commenting on my work over the years, he said, “You are one big fat canary in the coal mine.”<\/p>\n
I admitted that it has been a long time since anyone accused me of suffering from anorexia.<\/p>\n
One of the folks who called in made an astute point. He first somewhat apologized for being critical – and then he got to the crux of the matter:<\/p>\n
“Why don’t you put a little bit of effort – actually, a lot of effort, into your research?”<\/strong><\/p>\n The caller was perturbed that I had not exposed how so many politicians at all levels of government stay in office so long.\u00a0 I have dealt with that in at least one or two books, but I suspect they have escaped the caller’s attention.\u00a0\u00a0 I have written a bit on term limits, which would probably help a little, but I don’t see it as a silver bullet.<\/p>\n I pondered deeply on the comment after the show and have now formally resolved that, in the future, I will begin including footnotes in any book that I write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The radio talk show on KMED in Oregon was lots of fun yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0 Host Bill Meyer has thought long and hard about the problem of ignorant voters and government off the leash.\u00a0 Commenting on my work over the years, he said, “You are one big fat canary in the coal mine.” I admitted that it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,659,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-attention-deficit-democracy","9":"tag-bovard"},"yoast_head":"\n