ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Oh my: Amazon looks at leaving Seattle over city council hostility.

To paraphrase Animal House, Andy Jassy hasn’t dropped the big one — yet — but he put it in play this week. After years of deteriorating relations with their home city of Seattle and its ultra-progressive city council, Amazon’s CEO made it known that the online giant may look for greener pastures.

As Conquest’s First Law of Politics states, “Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.”