Why you should always check yourself before raising a hand, a voice, whatever.

I am still getting over whatever bug I had this week and am semi-horrifically busy besides; the Dayjob will be crazy next week, so I am stocking armaments, canned food, and hurricane lamps in preparation. Or doing laundry and putting up casseroles, whichever. In any case this means I haven't been writing, nor have I been thinking the kind of exciting! and fascinating! thoughts that merit blog posts.

So I give you Benjamin Rosenbaum, who is a fine writer and a smart man besides, on the Swiss vote to ban minarets.

Abusers typically, in the moment they are exercising their power, believe themselves to be the victims. The Nazis feared the Jews, the slaveholders feared the slaves, rapists feel humiliated and controlled by short skirts. There's something much scarier about this detachment from reality than there would be in mere cynical political manipulation. The most dangerous people in the world are the powerful caught in a fever dream of victimhood.

We will not discuss how many modern situations this applies to.