US hospitals, even those that are nonprofit organizations, refuse to hire enough nurses. The predictable result is that patients get injured.

Occasionally a patient develops a serious condition that went unnoticed because the nurses were always in a hurry.

I voted against the Massachusetts initiative, despite agreeing with the basic idea, because it seemed to me that putting a specific staffing ratio directly in the law was too rigid. In 20 years that ratio might call for change and would be very hard to change. Also, since the nurse I had known had died, I had no one to ask about whether that number was correct.

The funeral of Nizar Banat became a protest against Mahmoud Abbas, president of Palestine.

Palestine has not held an election for many years. The reasons for this are complex: Israel has put elected officials in prison without charges, and has interfered with holding elections. The result is that Mahmoud Abbas remains president by default.

*Assange's fiancée urges Biden to free WikiLeaks founder to show U.S. has changed.*

Youtube has deleted videos in which people talked about their relatives who are in reeducation camps in China, and showed their own ID cards to demonstrate their identity. Youtube has a rule against showing people's identity data.

That rule seems good in most circumstances, but this seems to be an exception.

Posting videos in a site other than youtube is not a bad thing. But some of them require nonfree software to view, and do not — unlike Youtube — have invidious as a workaround.

Israeli thugs found Ahmad 'Abdu in his car, which was stationary, and immediately started shooting him. Then they left without even giving him first aid. Then they lied about what they had done.