DavidL has gone off to work, but perhaps he will see this, anyway: From the blurb on the back of the latest edition of… (View Post)

Speaking of California, at one time (and perhaps still) there was a firm in the state that would undertake to find an endangered species for you -- if you wanted to block development in your area. (View Post)

Judging by that comment, Jacob Rees-Mogg doesn't know what gerrymandering is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering Nor is requiring voter IDs necessarily vote suppression -- if governments ma… (View Post)

For many years now, when I read a metaphor, I almost always try to picture it, to see if it makes sense. (A suprisingly large proportion of them don't. And some of the pictures are quite funny.) So i… (View Post)

Our local monopoly newspaper, the Seattle Times, has a variant on the "keep religion out of the public sphere" position: They try hard to keep Christianity out of the public sphere. (Other … (View Post)