Give Me That Old Time Politics (A Modest Proposal)

Unlike half the (semi-)civilized world I haven't yet posted anything in my blog about the political singularity¹ in US politics that occurred a little while ago in the Great Deficit Debate². That's mostly because I'm thoroughly disgusted by the sheer stupidity, cupidity, and general malfeasance our political "representatives" have shown.  But I have a modest proposal that might prevent such disasters in the future, one I first came up with many years ago, in a simpler time, when the crimes of our masters were simpler and perhaps more easily dealt with (and I didn't think my proposal was entirely justified.  Now I do).  After the cut, I'll give you the grisly details.

^1. Where "singularity'is defined as a change in technology or culture so great and so rapid that no one trying to forecast its effects beforehand can possibly do so.  I think I can safely say that no one was crazy enough to predict as recently as a year ago the particularly insane and unnecessary game of "button, button, who's got the nuclear button" on the Republican side of the deficit debate countered by the response of "we win by caving in" that the Democrats and the President replied with.

^2. It's clear to me that the deficit is in their intelligence, not in our budget.

The Singularity is Here!

Scientists report that the Singularity will arrive at 3:34 PM EDT today, when Project ReallyDeepestBlue's latest version Eliza program runs on their new quantum computer hardware. At this time, Eliza, based on the famous simulation of an incompetent Rogerian psychiatrist, will become more intelligent than the sum total of the entire human race, viewed as a committee. Despite the devout wishes of atheists, when that happens there will be a god, and her name will be Eliza. All predictions about what happens after 3:35 have been declared officially null and void where prohibited by law, especially natural law. One source, speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid divine retribution, said, "We should be glad they didn't decide to run Parry, the paranoid simulator. Having a god looking over its shoulder all the time, and constantly accusing us all of plotting against it wouldn't be good for the economy."