A heatwave at the north pole and collapsed Antarctic ice shelf are reminders to redouble our efforts, and focus on climate.*

California plans to give $400 to each car owner in the state, to help compensate for high fuel prices.

This is much better than the Republican proposal to make fuel cheaper. In the long term, the high price is good, as it will encourage people to use less of it. Thus, it is wise that the $400 aid payments are independent of how much a person actually drives the car; this way, they will not encourage more driving.

the plan has one flaw: it is limited to car owners. It follows that people will not have an incentive to sell the car and start taking the bus or a bicycle instead. The aid payments should go to every adult in the state.

If you get one of these debit cards do not use it to buy anything. Convert the money into cash, and pay cash!

Ginni Thomas (insurrectionist wife of Justice Thomas) sent text messages to the cheater's staff (including Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff) calling for overturning the election.

We don't have evidence that the couple explicitly conspired together for this strange coup, but I suspect that they did.

Reportedly Ukraine is trading corpses of Putin forces soldiers for living Ukrainian prisoners of war.

That makes no sense to me. If I commanded an army, I wouldn't release a captured enemy in exchange for a corpse. Doing so would not bring the soldier who died back to life, and the corpse would be of no help in a fight.

In general, I don't understand why people care so much about corpses. Even the corpse of someone you loved is not a person, just a keepsake, and other keepsakes would serve better to remember per by.

I have a file where I put the names of the deceased who meant something to me. Sometimes I go through it and remember them one by one.

*Special Assistant District Attorney Pomerantz explains in his letter of resignation that he believed the case of financial crimes against the cheater was ready for prosecution.*

The cheater actively threatens free elections and human rights in the US. If there is evidence to prosecute him for a serious crime, I agree with Pomerantz that we should do so without delay.