The UK gave housing to every homeless person, to avoid transmission of Covid-19. Now it plans to push them out on the street again, along with thousands or millions of destitute people that will soon be evicted.

Thai students are protesting, criticizing the government (which is military in essence) and the monarchy.

US citizens: call on your congresscritter to support the MORE Act, which decriminalizes marijuana and does other related good things.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.

If you call, please spread the word!

The cheater issued executive orders that pretend to help unemployed and poor Americans cope with the consequences of Covid-19. But they don't really do the jobs they pretend to do, they leave out lots of people, and they have intolerable side effects. They are also unconstitutional, since the president does not have the power to order such things.

More about the absurdity of his supposed "remedy".

I must disagree, however, with calling them a "failure". I think that his goals are such that they constitute a "success" according to them.

A California court ordered Uber and Lyft to treat drivers as employees following the California law which says they are. This is not a final decision, however, and I expect those companies will appeal all the way to the Supreme Court. Treating their drivers as employees — where they do so — can greatly reduce the way those companies mistreat their drivers. It does nothing to correct the injustices they do to all customers: making them run nonfree software, making them identify themselves, and making a dossier about the movements of each one. These injustices are the essential reasons to reject those dis-services.

As long as they continue, I refuse to get into an Uber car even if someone else booked the ride.