Compromise not always how wars end. I'm not even sure it's *usually* how wars end. Wars also end by one side losing. That's how WW2 ended (both the Germany part and the Japan part), and how the Falkl… (View Post)

The better accounts I follow are talking about weeks of attrition, they don't seem to be expecting anything spectacular in either direction. With attrition it's really hard to tell who's winning. (View Post)

It's even more kafkaesque than that because the bank doesn't wait for a directive from the Home Secretary. They have a responsibility to independently guess what the Home Secretary would do. It's the… (View Post)

There's a lot in that although I'm not sure the politicians really mind the combativeness. Part of the devastatingness of the Katie Couric interview with Palin came from the fact that the tone was ve… (View Post)

The members might catch on. (View Post)