I don't know what the best thing to do is in relation to prostitution, but I saw an opportunity for pedantry and I took it. I've read articles by the late Laura Lee, and find myself convinc… (View Post)

If you weren't allowed to advocate for illegal things how ever would the law be changed to make legal those things that are currently illegal? (View Post)

Was down to 2.2C overnight here. Large changes in temperature over a day are common in spring. The colder sea allows temperatures to fall to low levels overnight, but the strong sunlight - we're… (View Post)

The other thing to say about this - and it shouldn't really need to be said among this group of voting system nerds - is that there's no such thing as a perfect electoral system. It's … (View Post)

That's a deliberate decision to prevent the small states being overly dominated by the large ones. It's a feature of the design. Everyone knows that is part of the rules. The popular vote i… (View Post)