Mexico's president, AMLO, has created a new nationwide police and made it part of the military. That means the military are the thugs.

Institutions have impoverished British society and communication to the point where jumping into a wave of deference to the monarchy is the only outlet for the yearning for a sense of common social feeling and purpose.

The article speaks of "consuming" a "national account of ourselves" (referring to the British, thus not including me). This is not as twisted as the idea of "consuming" books or movies, but I think "absorbing" fits better.

Some state laws banning abortions restrict all prescriptions for drugs widely used to treat other medical problems, other than the problem of unwanted pregnancy that is. If these laws covered the whole US, it would interfere with the treatment of millions of patients.

Let us not make the usual mistake of emphasizing the uncontroversial collateral damage over the more controversial intended damage. Those religious fanatics want to force people to have babies!

A whale-detection system will inform ships in a narrow bay in Chile that they should slow down to avoid hitting whales.

I am only guessing, but I tend to think that this will not be sufficient change -- that we need to reduce the overall level of human-generated noise if we want whales to be safe.

Arguing that, if Putin falls, it would be good for the west to offer his successor a deal that perse could present to the Russian people as a good one.

I am in favor of this, provided the deal doesn't include keeping any of Ukraine.