The deal "includes $203.5 million in new funding to enhance security measures and protection for members of Congress" per CNN, which is definitely an indication that all involved believe the action will be very popular and not controversial at all.

I mean, I mentioned to my students that I saw the pilot episode of Spongebob in high school and my elderly bones turned to dust, so time is weird.

(Also if I was being accurate, the crowd I rode the train with was a lot of 70-80 folks including an entire sign-taped-to-walkers contingent.)

Am I saying that the Boomers and your average iPad kid have the same level of accurate historical knowledge?

Yes, actually. We're just accustomed to the Boomer version.

I swear to god some McKinsey consultant saw one tomato farm from the turnpike and decided this is Salty Nebraska where nobody ever swears.

It's like, folks consistently like a little innovation on a reliable bop, they don't always want avant garde. A lot of subversive and interesting stuff happens within an established set of patterns.

(Also, working in a genre doesn't support the Romantic solo-genius-artist thing--art is social.)

This is, as I understand it, basically how drinking age laws got standardized across states--you don't *have* to but there sure is a strong incentive to bring your laws to this standard.

Basically:

"Planets' Rights!"
"Planets' rights to do what?"
"Uh..."

I think it was "the Browncoats have Southern Accents" combined with the Western trope of the disaffected confederate protagonist?

My point being: this really isn't a very hard problem.