Canadian politics are quite different from U.S. politics in that actual gridlock is a rare event.  Trudeau has a firm parliamentary majority, so anything he dropped from his campaign promises is entirely on him.

Until sometimes you have to literally walk in the street to get past them, which doesn’t seem to indicate to these people that there are others in this city besides their precious selves.

That’s not even the worst of the pedestrians in Toronto.

How liberal of a network can MSNBC be if they’re going to such outspoken Blue Dogs as McCaskill.

I think the Democratic Party really needs to get re-acquainted with Middle America, because right now, I think their whole approach just drips with what one could call “coastal condescension.” It doesn’t help that the media often treats this part of the country like some kind of foreign anthropology expedition—people…

I’ve dealt with narcissistic psychopaths before, and Trump set off my alarm right away. From day one, I knew it was just going to be a daily circus, because that’s what these people do. It will not end until he dies, because even as an ex-president, he would likely never stop blabbering.

Biden’s support comes from name recognition (most people are not paying attention at this stage), clear favoritism from the DNC and a media that is happy to go along with their “frontrunner” marketing narrative.

I don’t doubt whatsoever that this will get a PS5 re-release—twice the sales! On the plus side, the PS5 version will probably look closer to this trailer, which will inevitably be downgraded for the PS4.

Dietary cholesterol is not linked to blood cholesterol in most people.

This site reported on such a study earlier this year:

It’s no big mystery, really. In the UK, all power resides in Parliament (the Brexit referendum was legally advisory), and all exercises of power are determined by a simple majority vote. Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party commands a narrow coalition majority government, which could possibly be toppled, except the…

The UK was designed to be basically the opposite of this—Parliament is supreme. They even lack a formal constitution, again so as not to constrain the will of Parliament.

That’s not quite true. It can also be used as a direct object:

It’s idiomatic American English. You pretty much have to get past the ungrammatical nature of it.

We don’t have to focus on Sanders or Biden’s ages specifically when we can focus on their words and actions. Biden is the one whose words and actions hint that he might be in the early stages of dementia, not Sanders.

I mean, in hindsight, most of the shows for adults in this era were terrible too. Part of this had to do with a sort of elitism of the time—”film is high art, TV is low art”—so they quite purposely didn’t put much effort into it, but the other half of the equation is that audience sophistication evolves over time.…

I tend to think too that the rise of authoritarianism is aided by having a weak opposition. The entire American political system is structured (by design by the parties themselves) to ensure a Democratic-Republican duopoly, and, over the past 50 years, we’ve faced a supremely well-organized GOP and an incredibly…

Specific to “The OA,” I think its still worth watching. The first season builds up to quite a payoff in season two, which, despite not having a third season, wraps things up in a pretty satisfying way. Yes, the ending builds up to what would have been season 3, but I don’t feel that alone takes away from the first two…

Zimmer is one of the founders of the company, which employs a bunch of other composers.

I know some people are hesitant about these updates, so I’ll mention that I’m running iOS 12.4 on a 6S, and it works flawlessly.