But very few are, certainly not as many as those that think they are. What normally happens is that comments from those one disagrees with are examined for every nuance of meaning, particularly if of… (View Post)

A tit-for-tat response would have been to spend money on setting up enough vaccine production in the EU to cover their needs and contract for exclusive use of it when they did so. (View Post)

“This nation of philosophers” being the country that still thinks Napoleon was a great ruler, worthy of reverence and admiration, rather than seeing his era as a catastrophe for France an the rest of… (View Post)

No Master Chief? (View Post)

Oh, it was a laughing stock well before then. Look up Tom Lehrer's (alleged) reason for giving up satire. (View Post)