At election time in other states, weighty matters like government spending and health care get debated.
Online, the relative cases of "Martha" and of "Andy" and even of "Alexis," who originally took her mother's side in the divorce, get debated with startling familiarity.
I have worked in a dozen or so war zones and I am constantly struck by the total divergence between how the situations get debated in British politics and what I see with my own eyes.
(Balls and strikes get debated even though the rule book says you can't. Players and coaches do it mostly to try to get an edge for that next borderline call).
The Labour leader told the Guardian that a vote against the nuclear deterrent at the party's Scottish conference on Sunday would greatly strengthen his attempts to change Labour policy at Westminster after the issue failed to get debated at the party's UK conference earlier this month.
But the center of Lisa's life is still school, and Lonergan dramatizes in passionate detail her relationships with classmates and teachers, the fragile intimacies of adolescence and the headstrong ideals that get debated vitally, even angrily, as detached academicism yields to personal passion.
