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Demands for censorship of OED

mercredi 18 septembre 2019 à 02:00

Political correctness fanatics have demanded the censorship of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Oxford University Press shows no sign of bowing to this pressure, but people should get ready to support dictionary publishers against it.

Beef

mercredi 18 septembre 2019 à 02:00

Not all beef is equally carbon-burdensome.

Sackler moving money

mardi 17 septembre 2019 à 02:00

Someone in the Sackler family moved a billion dollars to offshore bank accounts, then brought the money back to the US to invest. The investments are apparently not traceable to the Sacklers.

The usual motive for this is tax evasion. What we really need are laws that make this sort of tax evasion fail to work — for instance, to require information about who owns investments in the US.

Dunkirk gratis bus system

mardi 17 septembre 2019 à 02:00

Dunkirk has made the bus system gratis, and some people are giving up their cars.

US oligarchs

mardi 17 septembre 2019 à 02:00

Russia Has ‘Oligarchs,’ the US Has ‘Businessmen’.