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My first introduction to fascism was the tin-pot dictator of Sala-ma-Sond. Yertle the Turtle, the king of a “nice little pond,” clean and quaint with temperate water and plenty of food, was an expansionist. From his lowly rock he determined that, while lord of all he could see, he couldn’t see enough. Like a shell-wearing Nimrod, he built a tower on the backs of his people. Yertle, Dr. Seuss made no secret of the fact, was Hitler. But he was a sanitized Hitler, one fit for childhood consumption — an allegory to be internalized. Just as the “Butter Battle Book,” with its fanciful a...

Visualizing what 8-foot surge will be. right now they are using the word evacuation areas that they need to talk about the potential impact of the surge from florida through savannah, georgia. neil: i know you're a very modest man, got everyone together and i remember you are dealing -- at odds with the mayor, the governor and on and on and everyone had to be on the same page regardless and eventually they were but it didn't start out that way. how do you advise local, state officials going through on this? they all seemed to put the party thing aside and deal with the crisis at hand. what do ...