Nexus between philately and psephology: Several decades ago, there was a VERY close legislative race out on the Olympic Peninsula of WA State, with Democratic incumbent and Republican challenger sepa… (View Post)

Way Off Topic - This morning during 20-block walk home from my regular coffee shop here in Seattle, amused myself by playing a game we used to enjoy as a kid on loooooooong road trips: looking for ou… (View Post)

I stand (for the first time?) corrected - thanks! Which is why I wrote "IIRC" because I suspected there might be some exception . . . with some New England town being a possibly exceptional… (View Post)

Perhaps your vexation will be mitigated, in knowing that there ARE elected offices in parts of USA, where "animal control" is one of the duties of the job? So they are technically "dog… (View Post)

Have visited Chester (Cheshire, England NOT Pennsylvania etc., etc.) and especially admired the "continuous half-timber galleries" by which I circumnavigated the old town. However, saw no r… (View Post)