Squeal like a pig

Churchill famously said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the rest that have been tried.” Like making sausage, democracy is an ugly, sometimes bloody process that can lead to indigestion and heart disease.

A free press is, of course, vital to sausage making. Before the muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair published his expose’ “The Jungle” in 1906, sausage makers bragged that every part of a pig made its way to the dinner table “except the squeal.” Within six months, the Meat Inspection Act was passed, and our colons have been kept pristine ever since. Chalk one up to fine politicians responsive to the fictions of a free press.

Sinclair also wrote a scathing expose’ of that free press, “The Brass Check.” Inexplicably, he couldn’t find a press to publish the work. As a result, while our colons have been kept pristine by vigilant government regulation, our minds, lacking regulation, are still clogged with every part of the proverbial pig, especially the squeals.

It is to the squeals of our fine politicians and of the journalists who cover them that this blog is devoted.

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