Confirmation. I volunteer at a pantry, and at a food rescue discount store, and the customers look (and sound!) more worried... and the staff is trying to figure out how to save, in what was already an extremely lean operation :-/

And the customers weren't counting every little coin even before.

Alito is accepting valuable gifts from people with business before the Court. He is engaging in conduct that would be found to violate the Judicial Code of Conduct, if he were subject to it.

Can you, NSD, you write this kind of entertaining contrast into your next novel?

We’ve gotta stop calling these people conservatives. There’s nothing conservative about them. They are radical. They are fascists. They are bigots. Calling them conservative makes them sound grounded, logical, cautious. None of that is true.