'Tis the voice of the Lobster, I heard him exclaim,
"You have baked me too Long, I must sugar my brain."' - A. Socko

Not at all. "I write to give them indigestion ..." - A. Sock

They don't do it for the salary, US$: Prez.: $400K per annum plus expenses, & travel allowance. The congressmen receive health insurance of a Rockefeller level; on leaving office (the Democratic Senate Majority Leader's been - minority or majority - a floor leader ever since 2017; his Republican cou...

The sole benefit of the current USA election crise: The electorate, so dormant until September Labour Day holiday, realizes that - if France, Germany and England can keep the electoral cycle to a bare minimum [think: 'snap elections'], then the United States would be favoured by eliminating the 2-ye...

Democratic convention: Open, or brokered The days of smoke-filled back room may yet return. The deadline was August 7th to get on the State of Ohio ballot - their Legislators changed that to a September date, yet the Big Brokers would like slots 1 & 2 filled by early August, to satisfy the Repub. Pa...

Well, ... 'jeremiad' entered into common parlance. Don't know if Jer. 18 etc. influenced English Lit or literature in English.

Reality check: A hung parliament or 326.

Stick that in your kabbalistic whatchamacallits. 326

@Crazy Anglican: "Taxation" but without representation, a principal bone of contention. Lord Frederic North,- the 'prime minister' in 1776 & his Tories in the parliament imposed the Intolerable Acts and other taxes, including 3d. tax on tea - not the groat but the principle outraged the colonists. I...

They already have had a Warren Burger, a Chief Justice. Mr Burger, (CJ to the legal eagles) foloed on CJ Warren, who was a governor of California, home of the easy women and cheap drugs. California governors also include the incumbent, a possible establishment replacement sat the top of the Dem. tic...

'You have baked me too Long,/ I must sugar my brain.' - L Carrol [Chas. Dodgson] The advantage of constitutional monarchy where there is not a written constitution, an historical citation: 19th century. 'Every little child born alive/ is either a little Liberal,/ or else a little Conservative - Gilb...

@kestajk:

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A cask of Islay single malt is allegedly involved in the dementia case of Baroness T.

Pitch black in Texas

@JustAGuyNamed...Flashbanged!? See an ophthalmologist tout suite.

Major, et alia.

The unique Mitchell drives a vehicle with a first gear and a clutch!

The Manilius scholar, A E Housman, who wrote of the Tree,

'Loveliest of trees, the cherry ... ' also penned a poem, ending

' ... Mithridates, he died old.'

These little shocks R good 4 the heart.

Op-ed today in LeMonde '[C]onflicts taking hold at the edges of [the European] continent bear witness not so much to the return of war as to its permanence as an accepted mode of conflict resolution.' https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2024/03/19/france-s-chief-of-army-staff-the-french-army-i...