The war with Iran will stir me to write more about politics, current events, and international relations, but not now. Today I am just a swirling mess of ideas I can’t quite put down on paper and so I looked at a long note on my phone, which is full of some of my favorite quotes. I came across this one from Mark Twain and it pairs nicely with my comments yesterday, specifically those comments regarding POTUS and his drunken Secretary of War…
“We will not hire a blacksmith who never lifted a sledge. We will not hire a school teacher who does not know the alphabet…But when you come to our civil service we serenely fill great numbers of our minor [and major] public offices with ignoramuses.” – Mark Twain, September 30, 1876.
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