Had the same thought (sorta) re: Chinese land-pirates and their ongoing demand for luxury goods. (View Post)

Third-Party Candidates for POTUS 1892 - James Weaver, Populist = 8.5% of popular vote = 22 Electoral Votes (from Great Plains & West) 1912 - Theodore Roosevelt, Progressive (aka Bull Moose) = 27.… (View Post)

You are talking to someone (me) who thinks soccer is the most boring game on earth. That rugby is thuggery. AND that Australian Rules is just nuts. Suspect it's got a LOT to do with what your us… (View Post)

Elon Musk has turned himself into an almost perfect political kicking bag for Democratic politicos. ESPECIALLY Dem US Senators who retain- thanks to small 11th hour boost from EM - their majority AND… (View Post)

What the Brits did, or rather the English aristocracy and upper gentry, was make sport socially respectable. Hence the Playing Fields of Eton. Something unknown to other European snob-ocracies. UNTIL… (View Post)