{"id":619,"date":"2002-07-15T17:40:11","date_gmt":"2002-07-16T07:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/15\/more-on-tips\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:47:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:47:02","slug":"more-on-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/15\/more-on-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"More on TIPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10619,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.thismodernworld.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260304125314\\\/http:\\\/\\\/thismodernworld.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 06:42:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-17 00:11:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 17:48:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 23:13:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 23:13:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16023,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/9997412427\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/9997412427\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16024,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.wilwheaton.net\\\/mt\\\/archives\\\/001077.php#001077&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20070707194617\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.wilwheaton.net\\\/mt\\\/archives\\\/001077.php&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 03:11:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 03:11:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>One of my favorite political cartoonists, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thismodernworld.com\/\" title=\"This Modern World\">Tom Tomorrow<\/a>, has some wonderfully incisive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/9997412427\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis\">commentary on TIPS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Facism is a term thrown about too freely, and I don&#8217;t believe we&#8217;re at a point that its use is justified &#8212; but an oppressive and intrusive government, however you want to label it, does not ride into town wearing the uniforms and waving the flags of recognizable evil. It creeps in slowly, waving the flag of your own country, and speaking the language of patriotism and duty, and at each step along the way, its actions seem plausible and defensible &#8212; until one morning you wake up and realize the gulf between the way things were and the way things are has grown so wide that there is no going back. Sinclair Lewis tried to point this out more than a half century ago, and given the current climate, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/9997412427\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis\">It Can&#8217;t Happen Here<\/a> is well worth re-reading (or reading for the first time, if you&#8217;ve never come across it before).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another book for my reading list&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilwheaton.net\/mt\/archives\/001077.php#001077\" title=\"WWDN: Just the TIPS of the iceberg?\">Wil<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facism is a term thrown about too freely, and I don&#8217;t believe we&#8217;re at a point that its use is justified &#8212; but an oppressive and intrusive government, however you want to label it, does not ride into town wearing the uniforms and waving the flags of recognizable evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}