In wretched outcomes, the devil is in the details. — Jane Jacobs

Privately run jails are a mark of American "reinvented government" that has been picked up by neoconservatives in Canada.

I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.

Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances.