Beside it not being the proper democratic way of deciding how to be governed, the problem with political violence is that it quickly spirals out of control and can burn everything to the ground.

That is not the way we do things here in the US.

When I left academia to go to the private sector, I got a 40% bump in pay, and worked at least 30% less. And I didn’t have to write grants to support my program. When I was an academic, I thought people never came back to academia from the private sector because they couldn’t. I quickly found out that it was because they’d have to be crazy to come back. I wouldn’t have returned to the university for anything less than an endowed chair. And that was NOT going to happen.

Teachers in the US. Hands down.

The Chinese would have landed in Sydney by the time the French laid the keels for the subs in the deal they struck with Australia.

17 years isn’t nearly long enough

I hope they lock her and her co-conspirators up after conviction.