rcs1000 said: "Twitter is down for me:" Some people have all the luck! (View Post)

I'm not sure I should give Steve Scalise credit for running for Speaker, in the circumstances -- but he sure is showing courage: 'On June 14, 2017, at 7:09 am EDT, Scalise and three other p… (View Post)

Manhattan's population is now about 1.7 million. (It has been more than two million in the past.) The area is just under 23 square miles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan (View Post)

Cyclefree - As you have pointed out, governments can fail on legal matters by doing too little. Here's an example of a protest against those failures that touches my heart: "In June 2022, a… (View Post)

For some years I have argued that we value leaders' ability to speak more than we should, and their ability to listen less than we should. (Granted, the second is usually harder to judge from th… (View Post)