A black man is suspected of setting fire to churches near Ferguson.

Obama is sending a contingent of US special forces to assist the Syrian Kurds.

This seems like a good idea to me. A limited amount of help for the Kurds could make a big difference for them in fighting PISSI, while avoiding the harm that a large US intervention force would do.

If the Kurds can cut off PISSI from the Turkish border, it would crimp PISSI's funds (obtained by selling oil) and recruitment (foreign recruits come through Turkey).

Obama should ask Congress for approval of the US intervention against PISSI. I expect he would easily get approval. The point is to maintain the system of checks and balances.

The thug's vicious attack on a sitting high school girl is the extreme example of a systematic repression imposed in US public schools generally. Any student can be punished or suspended for minor or even fantasy "wrongs", but black students generally face worse treatment.

Suspension from school is extremely frequent: high schools suspend, each year, almost as many students as they graduate. Smaller punishments are probably far more frequent.

This system resembles a training program for living in an occupied country, and students could understand it as such. The thugs in the schools are soldiers in the occupying army, and the school officials are the local collaborators, quislings (that's why they order quizzes).

The teachers are mostly sincere, trying to provide what education they can under the occupation which they cannot defy, but that is easier said than done.

The goal is to make trouble for the occupation without letting the soldiers figure out who did it or how.

Sanders calls for ending the death penalty, legalizing marijuana, reducing incarceration, and helping ex-cons get back into society.

Diets generally do not achieve much weight loss.

Low-fat diets are the least effective, but perhaps that is becuase low-fat food products have added sugar.