OK then, my wife's uncle had a French punk girlfriend in the early 80s: newly arrived in London from Lyon and wide-eyed with awe at the vivacity of the place. A courtship ensues. One day the pai… (View Post)

Right. From here on, I am adopting a poster-quirk (a la Morris Dancer refusing to use the 'like' button). I've passed 10,000 posts now so I think I'm allowed. I will refer to what… (View Post)

The finishing point is normally an arbitrary point in space, but not in time. Time is the variable you are measuring. In almost all races, the finishing point is an arbitrary point in space, and whoe… (View Post)

But that makes no sense whatsoever as a descriptor. It invites comparison with a race where a particular location is the winning line (like the 100m), but it's a race where who runs furthest win… (View Post)

I agree with your assessment of the problem. My focus on the 45% tax bracket is that it appears to me to be peculiarly self-defeating. It looks to me like you would raise more tax simply by abolishin… (View Post)