Now that's a thought. If someone remakes Blake's 7, @Leon would be the perfect person to voice Orac, the waspish, permanently annoyed, artificial, self-declared genius. https://youtu.be/XCg… (View Post)

In these respects Trump is behaving as an intending old fashioned imperialist - like Theodore Roosevelt, who essentially magicked up a fake war with Spain so he could occupy Cuba. In one sense that&#… (View Post)

The end of *a* democracy is threatened, perhaps. Where's that coronary, when the USA needs him to have one? (View Post)

Sometimes they are. (View Post)

Trump has started dismissing Independent Inspectors responsible for checks and balances in Federal Agencies. These are like internal ombudsmen, guardians of probity. Dismissing them at midnight, imme… (View Post)