Chevron, a Big Oil company, is spending $75 billion on stock buybacks.

This demonstrates that Chevron has no valid use for all those profits, so we should increase the taxes the company pays and spend the funds on something useful.

However, I do not believe we should deduce that gasoline should have a lower price. If we tax Chevron that much more, we can instead use those funds to aid poor people. The poor people who need to drive will benefit just the same -- but those poor people who can avoid driving will benefit even more.

Along with the Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles, the US may supply Ukraine with shells made from toxic depleted uranium. When one of those shells explodes, it spreads dust of depleted uranium, which when inhaled or swallowed by humans leads to cancer, birth defects, and other severe medical problems.

The death of most indigenous Americans, due to the importation of European germs, cause their farm fields to grow trees. The result was significant global cooling starting in the late 1500s.

The cooling was reversed by population growth some two centuries later.

Sadiiq Long, US citizen is harassed frequently by local thugs because they see, when they check his license plate, that he is on the US "terrorist watch list." The US government won't tell him why, and offers no way to get taken off the list, so he is suing the local thug department for harassing him based on that listing.

The harassment varies and is sometimes very frightening; he could easily envision being shot next time.

Biden has proposed a collection of measures intended to help people who rent their homes and have trouble affording the expense.

I am not able to evaluate it, but I suspect (as do others) that it is not enough to solve the problem. I think we need to build a lot more housing, dense enough to make mass transit efficient. That will take years, so it is better if we get started now and push it hard.

Reportedly some big corporations that have bought up millions of rental units are content with the proposal -- which suggests it is insufficient.