To Our Gracious Host: I hope that your operation was a complete success, and that you recover quickly, and completely. (And may you have even more success against the bookies in the future.) You prov… (View Post)

Less than an hour ago, the Washington Post put up this story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/26/putin-prigozhin-russia-rebellion-wagner/ "RIGA, Latvia — Wagner mercenary chief Yevg… (View Post)

On the Alabama and Louisiana redistricting cases: If you are an unscrupulous Republican tactician, you love the idea of concentrating any heavily Democratic group -- black, in those examples -- in a … (View Post)

Here's a question about names -- and politics: In the US, it is common for newspapers to spell the name of your (current) second party, "Labor". (I think that's wrong since it… (View Post)

The events in Russia today seem so weird to me that they inspired this weird thought: Was Yevgeny Prigozhin leading what might be loosely called an "industrial action"? (Very loosely, but t… (View Post)