Word of the Day

My Weird and Wonderful Words calendar today lists the word "kakistocracy" as the WotD, with this definition: "The government of a state by its worst citizens." Isn't that what America has become under the Bush/Cheney maladministration? First and foremost, you have the Figurehead in Chief, Preznit I'm The Decider, the fucking dumbest and most clueless man on the entire fucking planet, and then, right behind him, with his hand firmly up the presidential ass, you have Dick Cheney, a man more purely evil than Satan's colon. Throw in Condi, Rummy, Gonzales and the rest of the gang of inept, overmatched sycophants, and what else could you call it? They're the worst of the worst.

My calendar further cites the 1876 OED for this bit of rhetoric: "Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a Kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?" I think the answer is obvious.