It's a slight difference in terminology - Americans refer to the "middle class" to describe what we would call the "upper working class". America is indeed a different place … (View Post)

Always remember that mid-term polls have precisely sod all predictive power for the next general election. We might just as well be trusting random number generators for the only poll that actually c… (View Post)

The other thing about Schwarzenegger is that he was, whatever you thought of his acting or his policies, an intelligent and serious politician. I don't get that impression with McConaughey at al… (View Post)

I posted yesterday about things I noticed during my recent stay on America’s west coast. An occasional PBer who lives in the US got in touch and said that I shouldn’t have been so negative. For the s… (View Post)

Yesterday BA disembarked my flight from Seattle by row numbers "according to our COVID-related policy" or something. Rows 1-5, 6-10, 11-15, etc. Not only is it ridiculous to think that, if … (View Post)