And the Silmarillion is one (heavy) edit of a wider selection of material. As it happens I loved RoP and felt it was, by and large, much closer to the tone of Tolkien as I read him, than e.g. the Jac… (View Post)

But in the last few years, the GOP vote has underperformed the polling average, and explicitly Trump backed candidates have underperformed that. So I think we are in a different phase. ETA: I'm … (View Post)

I suspect what we are seeing is a "bottoming out" - so a trend towards a minimum everywhere, which is necessarily going to reduce the relative differences. (View Post)

It feels like that time of day when everyone needs a snack and a little nap. (View Post)

Quite. There are two separate things going on - the personal, human travails, and then the wider impact. On a personal level, I wish them all the very best with their health in what must be very diff… (View Post)