The US fell into huge debt years ago that it will never get out of. More recently it has been hit 600 times harder by the latest SARS variant, in deaths per 1 million population, than its major compe… (View Post)

If Tim Jonze's 2016 piece on the Dancing Queen didn't get into Pseuds Corner he was robbed. (View Post)

It's not true. It was used in the US Supreme Court in 1832: "If you are making labor costs estimates, it is customary to escalate them. You have some basis for determining what a reasonable, fai… (View Post)

You gravely understimate the level of obedience in most of the population when the "You'll All Die Horribly if You Don't Obey" lever is pulled. Some here opined last spring that a ban on vi… (View Post)

Soil was specially brought from Winchester for the foundation of Eton. (View Post)