Los Angeles finds homeless people unsightly and plans to ban giving them food from a truck.

If it bothers you that there are homeless people in your neighborhood, remember that their lives are much more unpleasant and dangerous than yours. The reason they look unsightly is that they don't have much money and they have no place to keep clothing while not wearing it. If they defecate in the street, they surely feel rather uncomfortable doing so, but they have no practical choice.

The excuses that these anticompassionate people give are full of holes so obvious you have to shut your eyes to fail to see them. If the neighborhood homeowners are annoyed that the homeless people don't have a proper place to defecate, they should set up a toilet. If they are annoyed that the homeless people sleep in the bushes, they should set up a camping space.

Public Citizen will sue on behalf of the customers whose credit rating was ruined when Kleargear "fined" them for publishing a criticism.

The battery for the Zoe electric car has to be rented, and when the rental contract runs out, the battery can be disabled by remote control.

Cars are full of nonfree software, and it is common for nonfree software to be malware.

The US sent the Dominican Republic an ambassador who is gay and in a same-sex marriage.

Around 20 years ago the US sent a black ambassador to South Africa, which was surely intended as rebuke to racism. I don't know whether this choice was meant as a rebuke to bigotry; it might be he was promoted due to merit and given the next available country.

In either case, now that religious bigots are demanding that the US accede to their bigotry, it must not do so. Bigotry is not the sort of "local custom" that deserves respect.

A protester in the UK faced criminal charges for calling the MP behind the anti-squatting law a "coward".

The fact that such charges could even be brought demonstrates that the UK does not respect freedom of speech.

I don't know whether that MP is a coward, but it is clear that he is cruel and chooses to make the poor suffer. Which, in my book, is much worse than being a coward.