The question in the poll is clearly a loaded one, and a false choice given that lower economic growth kills people. But I agree that the government probably won't pay a price for lockdowns, part… (View Post)

We should do it from tomorrow. If it's the right thing to do in two weeks, why can't we do it without further messing around? We don't need two weeks to throw a bunch of masks away. (View Post)

We don't care about aethestics in this country, only artistic fashion. Otherwise, we'd have to knock down almost every building built in this country between 1945 and 1990. (View Post)

For a job, I am reading the NY Supreme Court's judgement against Giuliani, suspending his law licence. It is actually compulsive reading, if you can get over the dry and pretentious language com… (View Post)

Mine is that he took over a process already underway driven by many people and agencies and took a disproportionate share of the credit. He also glamorised and vulgarised it by introducing publicity … (View Post)