I guess also from the fact that the people involved were previously in a party at the far-left end of the horseshoe. (View Post)

That's what they're doing with the new maglev shinkansen in Japan. (Also because of the mountains, you'd have to dig a bunch of tunnels anyhow). The problem they have is that one of the prefectures t… (View Post)

Are you sure that's what it means? I read it again and it doesn't seem like it. As far as I can tell that only applies to Cressida Dick. (View Post)

They're popular for longer than 9 months. Even when you screw them up they're popular for that long. Some nice polling data from Wikipedia on the Bay of Pigs debacle: "Only 3 percent of American… (View Post)

"The dilemma: if every convicted subpostmaster in the last 25 years applied to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (“CCRC“) to have their convictions reviewed and referred to the Court of Appea… (View Post)