US citizens: call for the US to adopt a Windfall Profit Tax to respond to record-breaking profits for Big Oil.

Millions of Americans have been compelled to move by the early stages of climate breakdown. In the future it is likely to be tens of millions, and many of them will die early as a result.

But most of them will desperately seek housing in places they can survive, and they will find shortages everywhere, because of bad planning of housing construction.

A few weeks ago I passed through the "Seaport District" in Boston, where expensive new skyscrapers are being built at an absurdly low altitude above sea level. You can see this for yourself since you can look at the buildings and the sea together. What public funds will the owners demand for protection against the danger they brought on themselves?

Norfolk Southern railroad has yielded to public criticism for its avoidable derailment by starting to negotiate about paid sick leave.

The workers deserve that, but meanwhile, the rest of the country deserves safe trains.

Corpse fetishism is spreading to Europe. The inhabitants of an island demanded "return" of skulls of medieval monks, which they claimed had been "stolen" by academics doing research.

The worst part is, the university which had them gave in to the demand.

If this sort of fetishism were applied to older remains — as some wish to do — all our remnants of Neanderthal humans would be lost to science, each bone "returned" to someone or other.

Imagine if that had happened 30 years ago. We would have been denied the chance to determine that the Neanderthals were among our ancestors and were the same species as we.

The only way human remains can contribute to the world, to the good of present and future humans, is by being studied scientifically. The old bones have more to teach us. We should not let anyone's fetishism interfere.

* Anti-Defamation League says all extremist killings last year linked to rightwing extremism and a high number to white supremacy.*