They’ve done a good job of making moderate people critical. I tend to give police the benefit of the doubt, and I was one of the people thinking, “well it’s not an easy task” last week, but the way complaints have been handled (i.e. not) since then is deplorable. Both the police and people in all [...]
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Let’s be honest: G7, G8, and G20 meetings have historically accomplished very little. They’re big, expensive opportunities for powerful people to get their pictures taken, trying to remind everyone how important they are (or how important they suppose themselves to be). We’ve known this for a long time. We should also admit that the corresponding [...]
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I see a controversy on the horizon. It might not seem realistic now, but it could turn into one of those things where, by the time it actually presents itself, it’s too late to do anything about it and your opinion doesn’t even matter (like Wall Street excesses generating the financial crisis). So I’m speculating a [...]
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