Completely off topic, but cheering: A young woman, Lily Baker, saw an older woman trying to cross railroad tracks by pushing her wheelchair. Baker saw a train coming, stopped her car and was able to … (View Post)

FPT: viewcode asked: "So Initiative 200 (affirmative action bad) passed, but Initiative 1000 (affirmative action good!) then passed, but Referendum 88 (Initiative 1000 bad!) then passed. Presuma… (View Post)

What puzzles me about this header is that paying compensation quickly and fairly would seem to be a political winner for the Conservatives. (Or at least cutting losses.) Unless I completely misjudge … (View Post)

Andy_JS - My experience of being mugged is probably unlike most here. I was a farm kid who knew little about cities when I moved to Chicago, after graduating from college in 1965. (I still remember b… (View Post)

Some numbers on US charity: " Per capita, ­Americans voluntarily donate about seven times as much as continental ­Europeans. Even our cousins the Canadians give to charity at substantially lower… (View Post)