Covidiots beware — a new variant has appeared which spreads faster than the other bad variants.

It is currently limited to one country, but it will get to the others soon enough.

*The statue of Cecil Rhodes at Oriel College, Oxford, should be turned to face the wall in shame.*

I like it.

The 2021 version of the MORE Act, which would legalize marijuana, would also eliminate some continuing punishment of people with old convictions.

*Kumbh Mela: how a superspreader festival seeded Covid across India.*

All around the world, fervent religion has been deadly in spreading Covid-19. We have seen this with Christianity in Brazil, South Korea, the US of course; with Judaism in the US, and now with Hinduism in India.

If death followed quickly, it would be easier for believers to stay in touch with reality. But nobody is likely to die of Covid-19 from a religious ceremony until a couple of weeks later, and most of the victims will not have participated in the ceremony themselves, but rather got the disease indirectly via participants.

A promising choreographer killed himself after he was canceled in response to unsubstantiated accusations of some sort of sexual wrongdoing.

Although an investigation found no indication the accusations were valid, institutions proceeded with the cancellation anyway. The decision to stop performing his work, the fact that there was no way he could clear his name or ever be able to practice his art again, must have made him feel he was as good as dead already, his art already buried.

A few developers of useful free software have been convicted of grave crimes, even murder. (With the large number of contributors, by chance we must expect this.) We disapprove of murder, but we don't reject their code on that account.