This «scottfreitas» is a real gas, as we used to say - here he complains about those nasty Democrats who «controlled Congress from 1932 to 1994 [he’s not too good at history - the Republicans controlled both houses of the US 80th Congress from 1947 and had control of the US Senate in several intervening years] and turned America [nor is he very good at geography ; the reference is to the United States, not to the two continents] into a complete cultural sewer along the way…», while stating in a comment on Gary Markstein’s cartoon of 10 November that «America is still, overall, the best country in the world to live in». «[C]omplete cultural sewer», «best country in the world to live in» ? Please do make up your mind, «scottfreitas» ! (Of course, if all other countries are also «complete cultural sewers», then the US could still be the best in a poor lot, but I don’t get the impression that this is what «scottfreitas» is saying.) And while you are doing so, please do tell us in which countries other than the United States you have lived and worked, in order to provide us with some basis for evaluating your rather obscure value judgements….
This «scottfreitas» is a real gas, as we used to say - here he complains about those nasty Democrats who «controlled Congress from 1932 to 1994 [he’s not too good at history - the Republicans controlled both houses of the US 80th Congress from 1947 and had control of the US Senate in several intervening years] and turned America [nor is he very good at geography ; the reference is to the United States, not to the two continents] into a complete cultural sewer along the way…», while stating in a comment on Gary Markstein’s cartoon of 10 November that «America is still, overall, the best country in the world to live in». «[C]omplete cultural sewer», «best country in the world to live in» ? Please do make up your mind, «scottfreitas» ! (Of course, if all other countries are also «complete cultural sewers», then the US could still be the best in a poor lot, but I don’t get the impression that this is what «scottfreitas» is saying.) And while you are doing so, please do tell us in which countries other than the United States you have lived and worked, in order to provide us with some basis for evaluating your rather obscure value judgements….
Henri