Yes, but they usually call it "the rest of Moldova" or "Moldavia"

Seems like a situation where you can both go after him criminally for the sexual assault and civilly for the malpractice. Then the alleged rapist goes to prison and you get all his malpractice insurance company's money (albeit split 94 ways)

The Luddites had a point about the 'de-skilling' of work and the alienation of labor. And they regularly cross-dressed.

These people are just obsessed with enforcing misery.

Oh no! She might be denied a day and a half's fundraising.

When did it become 2003 again? And why is it one letter off from the way I remember it?

Oh, I've deactivated any voice activated anything on my phone.

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.

-Kurt Vonnegut

These kinds of guys have been active in California since basically as soon as it was granted statehood. The Big Four (a clique or robber barons) tried to rule over the state with the wealth they built up with the Central Pacific Railroad.

One of them, Leland Stanford (of Stanford University), actually did become governor and eventually senator.

Another, Charles Crocker, invented Californian NIMBYism with his infamous spite fence.

When the crisis hits (which in Argentina's case is the default status) and the contradictions heighten, libertarians eventually have to choose between free markets or free people.

And the "free helicopter rides" jokes they've been making for the last decade tells me how wrong they tend to choose.

Source appears to be called 'Art News', so they probably have a particular interest in arts and culture.

If we suspect the Saudis did this, we should absolutely look into it, and if they did, stop providing them with weapons.

But while we're auditing who may have used American weapons to kill migrants, we might want to check on this little organization called Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The CPC doesn't deserve defense. The most reactionary Tiananmen protester was more communist than any Dengist since then was.