A proposal to deploy sleeping pods for San Francisco's homeless people is blocked by lack of cooperation.

The criticisms officials present in the article may be valid in a narrow sense. They might be valid reasons to change something in the plan. But they are not valid reasons to give up.

Officials, if these shelters look like dog houses, could you make them look different?

If we ought to do better, does that mean you should do nothing?

If Gopman's ego is a problem, have you tried to do the project without him?

It appears these objections are being used as excuses.

Ohio has created excuses to shut down nearly all abortion clinics. The next absurd restriction is to ban abortion of fetuses with Down's syndrome.

This is apparently meant to ensure the birth of people who will vote Republican.

The UK targeted and killed some British supporters of PISSI, in Iraq. Is this a sensible strategy?

Was it legitimate to kill them with a missile? In practice, PISSI and the UK are fighting a war, and in those circumstances it is morally justified for the UK to kill PISSI fighters. Were these men PISSI fighters? The articles I have seen have not given that information.

The UK government says that they were talking about committing crimes in the UK. However, that's not the same as waging war, and is not grounds for killing them in Iraq.

It seems they did not even have concrete plans. If they were talking in a vague way about committing crimes in the UK at some indefinite time in the future, that shouldn't even be a crime until they make it concrete.

Germany has ordered Facebook to follow German limits on freedom of speech.

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to criticize, offend, insult or mock any person, or any group of persons. It includes freedom to say things that you despise, and things that I despise, even things that we both despise. Most countries do not respect freedom of speech very well.

What we see is that as commercial communication platforms move from offering service to people in lots of countries to actually doing business in lots of countries, they become subject to ever increasing censorship.

Thus, the growth of any communication company into a global business is inherently dangerous to freedom of speech, regardless of the details of that company.

Everyone: call on Walmart to pay workers $15 an hour and give them full-time work.