After Ohio thugs shot John Crawford dead as he carried an air rifle he was about to purchase, they interrogated his girlfriend making wild accusations and threats.

Torture unites the US and PISSI with the Nazi regime and medieval barbarism.

Cheney defends US torture by stretching the definition of the word and claiming the Sep 2011 terrorist attacks were torture too.

His definition is wrong, but more importantly, his implicit premise is that the US should match its enemies for barbarism.

More sick ideas from Cheney: torturing innocent people is forgivable if the US does it, and they should never be released afterwards because some of them might be so angry they would fight against the US.

This is part of an all-out campaign to legitimize torture by the US. Americans, if you love your country, now is the time to insist that Cheney stands trial for his crimes, along with Bush and their underlings.

Sea walls built to protect beachside housing tend to destroy the beaches, which then can be maintained only by artificially replenishing them.

A few decades from now, with sea level rising ever faster and various disasters striking, no region will be able to afford to sustain beaches artificially; rich people will do it in private enclaves.

I am no expert, but I suspect that the natural process that creates new beaches may be too slow to keep up with the speed of the rise as it will be a few decades from now. The process may not get a chance to work again until hundreds of years from now, when the Antarctic and Greenland ice caps have melted and sea level is a 100 or 200 meters higher.

In the UK, good jobs require doing unpaid internships first, and only the wealthy can afford to do the internships.

It appears that these internships are illegal but the interns don't dare complain.

Cheney Calls for International Ban on Torture Reports.

(This is satire. I expected this to be obvious, but a reader said he could not tell, because it was plausible Cheney would really do this.)