US citizens: tell Congress to reject the Schumer-Portman corporate tax giveaway.

US citizens: call on Congress to protect funding for Planned Parenthood.

The wild and useless response to an attempted shooting on a European train: identity checks for everyone.

There are so many places where you can find a bunch of random people to shoot that it makes no sense to take such measures on just one of them.

In the UK, 80 people per month die shortly after being labeled as "fit to work" and losing disability benefits.

Do you think Cameron feels bad about their deaths? I don't.

Don't sneer at people for the foolish wishful thinking that leads them to fall for a mostly-fraud like Ashley Madison. The same sort of foolishness leads people into other frauds.

Apparently many people don't understand the difference between folly and evil. They are fundamentally different. Being a tempting victim may be foolish but it isn't evil. It may be foolish to walk down a deserted street at 23:00, but it's not wrong. Therefore, if someone robs you or rapes you there, your foolish choice may be part of the cause, but it has no effect on the moral responsibility for the crime, which falls in this case entirely on those who carried it out.

This confusion supports the practice of blaming the victim (although people may have other reasons for wanting to do that).