Autogoogling, as you do, you find out interesting things about namesakes around the world. My most prominent namesake is Canadian terrorism expert Tom Quiggin, who is a good source of information on quite a few topics. Now he has a blog> His opening posts seem very promising
Why Bush Has it Wrong
Intelligence and the Moral High Ground
John Quiggin 
(the other) quiggin makes a lot of sense, but sense doesn’t matter as much as one might wish. the decision to go to iraq was made for reasons never made public. i suspect megalomania would sum them up, although people whose personal fortunes depend on oil and munitions might simply have done it for the money.
i read ‘the decline and fall of the roman empire’ as a young lad, and was amazed that incompetent and quite insane persons could find themselves at the head of empire. i was comforted by the fact that the usa would never be in such a position, as the election process would produce good leaders.
well, i was young. and wrrroong.
I am apparently also a pro-skateboarder in the US, a business marketing “guru” and the marketing director for CHOGM. I must be really busy.
One more reason to long for limited government. Limited government means limited incompetence and limited insanity.
Sara Gruen writes a mean novel I’m told.
terje, you might be happy in barrygoldwaterland, google ‘direct democracy arizona’. that’s the closest i can find, but if i discover any state being run by the solipsist philosophy, i’ll let you know.
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