My feeling is that we are going to need as much as we can afford fairly soon. The demographic situation in China points to them considering military action sooner rather than later. The Russian crisi… (View Post)

It's Atlantic Rainforest country. (View Post)

Imagine if Charles Stuart had received development aid. Parliamentary democracy would never have happened. (View Post)

A lot of gravitational potential energy added to any drink you've carried up with you. (View Post)

The legal system has *always* been an active part of democratic politics, and indeed was an important part of the development of democracy. See, for example, the legal cases over taxation in the run-… (View Post)