Back on December 19th, I wrote the following:

Kim Jong Il, the leader of one of the most extreme and complete versions of that monstrous ideology, has also left the world, and good riddance.

I will not excerpt any obituaries. North Korea …

Perhaps human nature leaders inexorably to centralization. When something bad happens, everyone says, “Something ought to be done” or “There oughta be a law!” And humans, being what we are, look to the biggest figure—the president, and/or the federal government—as the one who ought to be doing something. And the media just make all this …