Zompist Bboard Again

NBC NEWS: "2020 Democratic hopefuls wage invisible primary for black voters" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/2020-democratic-hopefuls-wage-invisible-primary-black-voters-n909086 Pretty straightforward on its own, but the thing is, there are so many Democrats seemingly prepar...

On a related note traditionally at the University of Cambridge you "read" your subject rather than "study" it (this usage is declining though as Cambridge assimilates to the majority of British universities linguistically). I always liked that usage; I'll be sorry to see it go. ...

Oh, I missed a Discworld discussion. Never mind, I'll just pretend it's still going on. So far, I've read Jingo , Night Watch , and the early books in order of publication from the start to Moving Pictures , after which I lost interest for some reason. I had fallen in love with the series when I gra...

Thank you. Still less extreme than Sal's 83/14 ratio though. Perhaps he got his numbers from a more current source, which already shows the effects of the recent crisis?

I'm not Israeli, but based on my observations of right-wing movements in various countries, I strongly suspect that it won't make a difference - or, if anything, that it will strengthen support for him and his party, by giving him even more opportunities to strike a pose as a right-wing martyr. Sigh.

The amusing thing in this case is that Labour doesn't actually care about Jews - Being bigoted against people doesn't require seeing oneself as caring about them either way. they're an absolutely tiny share of the voting population anyway, and they all vote Tory anyway. [they don't, obviously. But ...

Basics Username: Raphael Name: you can probably discover it with a bit of detective work Other nicknames (including good stories, if you have any): back when spinnwebe.com ran the AAA-1 Americaptions, I got three captions accepted as "street and rail", which I used because I was living in...