In the short term, it was all they could do- sell dignity to buy time. Questions are whether they have bought enough time and used the time sufficiently well. (View Post)

As WSC might not have said, "Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.” That was then. The current Administration can increasingly … (View Post)

Don't Palantir have access to most of it anyway? More likely, it's a fishing operation by the US Government, giving them the opportunity to make life very unpleasant for visitors they don&#… (View Post)

Once you start down the "more what you'd call 'guidelines' than actual rules" road, where do you stop? (View Post)

Agreed, but there are a couple of catches. One is that there is an art to the insult, and 'lanyard-wearing class' doesn't have sufficient art. There is too much collateral damage. The … (View Post)