You have a bunch of civil public servants who are getting paid more than 90% of the rest of their fellow citizens in one of the richest countries of the world as they like to brag. IOW, we're not talking about some poor SOB of a cop or a bureaucrat in the former SSSR or Africa or Latin America who hasn't seen a paycheck in six weeks (if that) and ( Read more... )

One thing which reviewers and critics tend to miss, reducing Shaw's Major Barbara to mentally-manageable cartoons, is that it isn't as simple as Mr. Undershaft being an arms manufacturer and dealer - it's explicitly stated that his company's *real* business, and menace, is in bankrolling countries and warlords and supporting both sides of every ( Read more... )