Many Americans are unable even to make a dent in their college loan debts. Of those who borrowed in 2009, over a quarter owe more now than they did at the start.

Eventually the lender concludes the loan is uncollectible and forgives it, but this counts as taxable income, which is taxed at a substantial rate and the poor victim can't possibly pay it.

The tax debt must be smaller than the school debt. It might also be easier to eliminate via bankruptcy, though I don't know.

The lender could reduce the resulting tax debt greatly by forgiving the debt a little every year — as if it were being repaid — because that way it would not put the borrower into a high tax bracket. But I wouldn't assume they care enough to do that.

Over a period of decades, Norway has designed its economic rules to consider human beings important.

The UK wrongly confiscated Ken Morgan's passport in 1994 after an intended brief visit to Jamaica, which forced him to stay in Jamaica until 2018. In that year he applied for UK citizenship, but it was denied because he had been away from the UK for so many years.

The fact that officials could make this decision shows the wrong premises with which they approach such decision in general.

By the way, this is an example of a mistake that Joseph Heller has pointed out: people apply the term "Catch 22" incorrectly to other situations. What officials did to Morgan was unjust, but does not have the unique special structure of Catch 22.

A covidiot has been charged with assault for breathing on protesters with the idea that he might infect them with Covid-19.

I believe it is well-established that intentionally transmitting a dangerous disease to others is a crime. It certainly deserves to be.

A survey of major investment funds finds they are planning to invest heavily in renewable energy but continue investing (infesting?) too much in fossil fuels.