I understand the concern here. On the other hand, I think the consequences would end up being that stores would stop carrying a lot of unique international brands altogether.

I think a lot of it is related to a general lack of trust in authority that arose in the 1960s and 1970s between JFK’s assassination (and conspiracy theories), then Watergate culminating in Nixon’s unprecedented resignation.

I love antiques and despise mass-market minimalism—to hell with bland, white-walled condos!

An awful lot of government is basically held together by old standards of aristocratic etiquette and “gentlemen’s agreements.” I think, perhaps, our founders just couldn’t conceive of a society breaking down so substantially that they’d need to have explicit laws covering everything—and, yet, Plato was able to…

In a broader sense, nothing ever gets changed unless it’s an issue that affects the upper middle class, since these are the folks who make up our media and political elite.  It’s rotten as hell, but it holds true every time.

Well, and you know why that is. FPTP is why Canada has a revolving door of Liberal and Conservative governments. Why would either of these parties want to stop the gravy train?

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.