IshmaelZ asked: "Have you lived in the UK? You'd be amazed how liberating it is to be in an ecosystem where medical assistance of any kind is free, like air or tap water." No, but I ca… (View Post)

Here are three of the welfare programs some of you, apparently, think the United States doesn't have: Medicare: "It primarily provides health insurance for Americans aged 65 and older, but … (View Post)

Those who think the United States is purely a Puritan nation should read David Hackett Fischer's "Albion's Seed". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion%27s_Seed 'Albion's… (View Post)

Right now, FiveThirtyEight makes Republicans the favorites to win the House, 72-28, and Democrats the favorites to win the Senate, 71-29: https://fivethirtyeight.com/ Off hand those odds seem a littl… (View Post)

Strunk and White say: "Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's. Follow this rule, whatever the final consonant. Thus write, Charles's friend Burns's poems the witch… (View Post)