Word to your preznit.
On his blog the other day, Eric Alterman introduced me to the word "kakistocracy":
From Barry R, a word that gets more useful with each day: Kakistocracy (from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000)
SYLLABICATION: kak·is·toc·ra·cy
PRONUNCIATION: kak'i-stok're-se, käki-
NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. kak·is·toc·ra·cies
Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.
ETYMOLOGY:
Greek kakistos, worst, superlative of kakos, bad; see caco- + -cracy.
Oldest use: 1829.
PUTTING THE WORD TO USE:
"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?" - 1876 OED
The only thing I have to add is just a cheap chot-- not a particularly good one, either, but one I find I'm unable to resist: The president certainly puts the ka-ka in kakistocracy.
Rob
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
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A good word. Appropriate in this case.
(how do i make hotlinked URLs here?)
I'm not sure how to do it in comments. Andrew?
Try putting surrounding the item you wish to hotlink like this:
<a href="http://www.mysite.com/">my site</a>.
For example, check out my web site.
-Christian
Thank you, sir. And snazzy site!
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