Was driving around the "Main Line" a couple weeks ago and kept noticing these weirdly low overpasses.
Ah, that's right: this was done to prevent public transit buses from reaching the parks and thereby keep them segregated.
But sure, all of that's gone now, they're just nice folks with concerns.
a lot of moderate reactionaries are perpetually engaged in the project of claiming that conservative grievances are not driven by racism, but are in fact practical and legitimate.
I am so, so, so sorry to Greg, it obviously doesn't work with his comment (which is entirely correct), it just popped into my head and I couldn't get it out.
Narnia before Aslan was a corrupt land of rotting statues, due to the expensive needs of maintaining a patronage system in a declining economy. Aslan’s carefully written bills & (inaccurate) reputation amongst progressives for being above politics made him well positioned to pursue his agenda when…
