Take Me to Your Lizard

It is too soon to write about New Hampshire - what was real, was there fraud, what does it portent. Too soon. But, the election last night has reminded me all day of Xaxis.

That wholly remarkable book, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, talks about the planet Xaxis. On that world the people are people and the leaders are lizards. The people hate being ruled by the lizards but, it is a democracy. They've all got the vote, so the people all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want. They keep voting for lizards, even though they hate them, because if they didn't the wrong lizard might get elected.

The photo is of that great symbol of democracy, the Greater Earless Lizard.