EVOLUTION IN ACTION, in politics: “The fact is that all Russian politicians are clever. The stupid ones are all dead. By contrast, America in its complacency promotes dullards. A deadly miscommunication arises from this asymmetry. The Russians cannot believe that the Americans are as stupid as they look.” Yeah, we find that hard to believe, too . . . .

UPDATE: Related thought: “We need to take the political parties back from the whacko activists.”