Australian soldiers' crime against an inanimate object arouses incredible outrage — more so, it seems, than their crimes that hurt human victims, including torture and murder.

That bespeaks a taboo-based morality, according to which taboos are more important than people, so violating taboos is worse than killing people.

I hereby affirm that, when I am dead, I will not mind at all if someone takes some valueless part of my property and uses it as a cup. Or even my bones. After all, I won't need them any more.

However, I have willed my body to science, so do let the lab have first dibs.

Lisbon has made use of the temporary end of tourism to convert many temporary rentals into long-term low-price residences.

*Monopolies have made America's Covid response worse.*

Biden nominated Neera Tanden for head of the Office of Management and Budget. She is the head of the "Center for American Progress", a plutocratist think-tank. We must expect plutocratist action from her.

Italy plans to charge five Egyptian government agents with the murder of graduate student Giulio Regeni in Cairo.

Unsurprisingly, Egypt's repressive government says it has no idea who was responsible for the murder.

Regeni's studies involved interviewing people that were on bad terms with the state. [pol note about this point]