Bogus Johnson is proposing to create three new obstacles against prosecuting UK soldiers for war crimes including torture.

Fortunately the International Criminal Court will be able to prosecute them if the British government does not try.

No army is immune to the temptation to vent anger through war crimes. If a country protects its own soldiers from charges, it in effect encourages war crimes. The world is full of bad examples; the UK has been a good example until now.

*Making a demon of JK Rowling is a wretched sport, born of misogyny and resentment.*

I continue to rebuke Rowling for her unjust lawsuit against people who bought one of her books, and since them I have refused on principle to buy any of her books. But I do not hate her. She does not deserve to be vilified based on distortions of what she said.

Democrats and progressives are pressuring Republicans not to try to replace Justice Ginsburg this year.

It may be possible to succeed. Several Republican senators now running for reelection are reported not to want to vote on this.

The issue of replacing Justice Ginsburg is boosting support for Democrats in senate races.

I am concerned that what Schumer and other Democrats are now saying — "Appoint another justice now and we will expand the Supreme Court" — might be interpreted as promising the converse: "Don't appoint another justice now, and we won't expand the Supreme Court." That worries me, because we need to expand the Supreme Court. We should do this to cancel Gorsuch and Kavanaugh; we should do this to reverse plutocratist decisions made before them, including the Corporations United decision and the weakening of the Voting Rights Act and the decision that applied "religious freedom" co companies.

Lori Loughlin will serve her prison sentence in a prison near her new home. The prison has many educational programs, including creative skills and job skills.

All prisons should offer such lessons. That is called "rehabilitation" — a concept American prisons used to practice, but forgot about under Reagan's spirit of cruelty.

Lori Loughlin does not need to learn a new trade, but many prisoners do, and it can be the opportunity to change from a life of crime to a life as a good citizen.

Is it silly to teach arts, including music? Some prisoners can make an emotional contact with an art and see that there is something in life other than what you can get for yourself.

What bothers me is not that Ms Loughlin's prison has these things. It is that so many prisons don't.

It would be fair to make wealthy prisoners pay for participating in these programs — but that is dangerous, because it might lead to charging poor prisoners for participating in them. That we must not do!

Most of the US is in the zones to be affected by climate disaster, one way or another. If you don't get fires, or water shortage, you get hurricanes or torrential raines. Here's a map.