A smart poster noted last week that Polly is considerably more dishevelled this season, and the sense that her eye is very much off the ball only grew stronger when she openly compared Michael to her dead husband, a man she knows is a wrong 'un, without making that further connection.
One of his talking points is a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan, which he openly compares to the New Deal.
When Russian troops entered Crimea, Hillary openly compared Putin's actions to Hitler's occupation of the Sudetenland.
The Obama team openly compared its transition to Franklin D. Roosevelt's and, in private, discussed the Reinhart-Rogoff work.
Senior government ministers are openly comparing the leaking and undermining of Malcolm Turnbull to the campaign waged against Julia Gillard during the 2010 election after she ousted Kevin Rudd.
As I've described before, Chinese technologists have adopted a clear strategy of openly comparing China's censorship practices to the filtering of child pornography and neo-Nazi content in the West.
Then there is Martine Aubry, who may well be Hollande's choice for Prime Minister and who, in 2010, openly compared Sarkozy, in his handling of the public finances, to Bernie Madoff.
He recommends that the pay of those at the top of the public-sector should be openly compared with the median levels of pay earned by staff in their services.
Cigital, a software consultancy, analysed 103m hands of Texas Hold 'Em played at Pokerstars.com, and found that 76% of them ended before a showdown: that is, before opposing players reveal their cards and the strength of their openly compared hands determines the winner.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals suffer harassment, violence, and familial rejection, same-sex conduct is still criminalized, and earlier this year the Kenyan Assembly majority leader openly compared homosexuality to terrorism.
