It is a strange thing. I would not want to live in Republican Rome, where politics were frequently determined by violence, but I cannot help my frequent bouts of barbarism. My hatred for these Republicans runs deep.
De mortuis nil nisi bonum, but I cannot help myself. Scalia has always struck me as the sort of zealot who would commit great evil if he could, purifying the world to his liking.
Clausewitz called war politics by other means; today the inverse is true. I will rejoice at the fall of a great enemy.