* Instead of ramping up the threats, western nations should be offering Vladimir Putin a ladder to climb down.*

This is made more difficult by his practice of saying, "You need to offer me a way to climb down from the incipient tantrum that I've talked myself into. To do that, start by giving me the concessions I have demanded."

Co-op apartment buildings in New York have the effect of enabling racism. The co-op directors can reject blacks -- or reject short people -- and it is hard to stop them.

Michael Mann debunks the fossil fools' arguments for carbon capture and for planting trees as "carbon offsets".

Starbucks has fired workers participating in the union drive in a store in Memphis. The fired workers were 7 in number, out of a total of 21 workers at a that store.

(satire) *NASA Slammed For Selecting U.S. Company To Build Rocket On Mars Rather Than Local Martian Engineers.*