Occasionally, you read of intelligent responses to disruptive demonstrations. Decades ago, for example, there was a civil rights demonstration in, as I recall, downtown Baltimore. The demonstrators s… (View Post)

Today's Andy Capp comic strip celebrates the coronation: https://www.gocomics.com/andycapp/2023/05/06 (It's not up to Viewcode's level.) (View Post)

To prepare for all this fuss, I re-read Arthur C. Clarke's short story, "Refugee", and thought again, as I have before, that your new monarch might have benefited from a similar experi… (View Post)

Just a reminder: Gerrymandering is not the same as "vote supression". The Conservatives are being accused of using voter ID to make it harder for some opponents to vote -- how accurately I … (View Post)

In North Dakota not all that long ago (in my terms), you did not even need to register to vote. It's such a rural state, that you could assume the folks manning (or, more often womaning, in my e… (View Post)