QueasyJet is being sued for asking a woman to change seats because her neighbor objected to the presence of a woman in the next seat.

If your neighbor is doing nothing wrong to you, but for some reason you don't want to sit next to per, that's your problem. You can live with it, or ask to move, or get off the plane. This is obvious to most of us, but religion sometimes encourages people to think they should dominate others.

Coal companies think they can get a state in Australia to approve 21 new coal mines.

The demand for coal has been declining.

The US Gulf coast is full of unsafe chemical plants, some of which leak toxins all the time. Putting that together with a hurricane is acutely risky, and in Louisiana one of these accidents-waiting-to-happen just stopped waiting.

The EU is being criticized for a deal that shields a vaccine company from liability.

Vaccinating everyone for a certain disease might save 1% of the population from death or grave injury due to that disease, and might cause grave harm to .001%. If each of the people thus harmed sued the company, it could go broke. It makes sense for the government to shield the vaccine makers from liability provided it covers the .001%'s treatment and losses in some other way.

In a country with a national medical system, that arrangement is easy to implement, and is good for everyone concerned. The people suffer far fewer sicknesses and deaths. The nation has fewer sick people to treat, fewer disabled people to support, and fewer deaths to compensate. Then the vaccine manufacturer can charge a reasonable amount for the vaccine and make a reasonable, steady profit. National medical systems negotiate the price of every medicine, so the company cannot gouge.

The US is a weird case because it does not have a national medical system. The few who get sick from the vaccine, and need treatment or care, can only afford it by suing the vaccine company (or someone with deep pockets). If they can't sue the vaccine company, they go without treatment. Under these circumstances, it would be cruel to excuse the company from liability.

But what the US really needs is not medical liability, but a national medical system — Medicare for All. Then we could limit liability suits to cases where the company did something wrong.

*Outrage Grows Over Police Treatment of Alleged Kenosha Killer Kyle Rittenhouse Compared to Shooting Victim Jacob Blake.*

Thugs showed respect and support to the armed vigilante, not even arresting him for the shooting. Shouldn't they be fired for that, at least?

(satire) *Blue Lives Matter supporters told reporters Thursday that Kyle Rittenhouse’s actions did not reflect the nonviolent tactics favored by most police-state apologists.*