Nick Gotts

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• JamesPadraicR commented on Metacommentary
  That reminds me of this: Dogged By Controversy, A Jewish Sect Is On The Move Again. A Hassidic sect from Canada leaving for Guatemala in part to get away from child abuse accusations. South & Central America has my sympathies for getting saddled with North American nutjobs....
• Antonia T Tiger commented on Metacommentary
  I don't think it absolutely needs citizenship as long as you pay taxes and obey the law. I noticed, eyeing the Sark situation, that the Barclay brothers are trying to get out from under the Law of Sark, which they currently seem to be breaking in several ways, by arguing that Brecqhou has never been part of Sark. But can I trust Wikipedia? And if Brecqhou is not part of Sark, what is it part of? Should the Royal Navy send a warship, or just a rowing boat? I am getting ideas for a story of my own, but writing...
• MSB commented on Metacommentary
  Interesting metaquestion: Is a strange attractor also a strange attractor if the host himself is attracted to it? If yes, I think we haven't yet listed libertarians, their natural habitats and their weird cults, especially: -- Bitcoin -- goldbugs -- libertarian drive-by posters in any thread concerning one of the above also the general idiocy of the libertarian doctrine (Seriously, the example of Galt's Gulch Chile--of which I'd never heard before--is proving once again that the prototypical proponent of libertarian ideology is the fraudster.)...
• barren_samadhi commented on Metacommentary
  elfin safety inspection .. ?...
• Egg Syntax commented on Metacommentary
  Here are some interesting thoughts about the dark side of this issue from blogger & developer Jeff Atwood. He cofounded Discourse, which attempts to reimagine discussion forums....