Oregon's governor says that the wrecker made a deal to remove the federal thugs that have been grabbing people in Portland.

I hope he really carries out this deal. One cannot count on that.

Americans are starting to call for dismantling the Department of Harassment and Sadism (DHS).

*'Utter Disgrace': GOP Proposes Legal Immunity for Corporations, $0 in Funding for States, and Deep Cuts to Unemployment Benefits.*

In effect, Republicans want to give Americans permanent damage in exchange for some short-term aid.

Montana has approved a new copper mine which will risk poisoning one of the few unpoisoned rivers in the state.

Mine operators will promise to do almost anything to avoid pollution, as long as they will not have to do it until later, by which time the company will be bankrupt. If the mine makes millions of dollars, the mine will nonetheless go bankrupt eventually once operating it is no longer profitable.

Nowadays we must also be concerned with the danger that global heating disaster will put an end to industrial use of copper, as well as mining. At that point, anything which can leak, will leak.

After months of wild handouts to the rich, plutocratist politicians have remembered the national debt as an excuse to cut Social Security.

Deficit spending is exactly what is needed at the start of a depression (or even a recession). Remember how Obama launched deficit spending to reduce the 2009 recession? However, in 2010 Republicans took control of Congress and did not allow this to continue.

Curiously, they also propose to spend additional billions on more weapons. That increase in the national debt does not bother them. This double standard has existed for years, but it is especially blatant when it applies to two parts of the same bill.

The point that Social Security does not affect the national debt is pertinent too, but it is not as deep.

The Washington Post has adopted a non-biased approach to capitalizing the racial color adjectives, "black" and "white".

Some organizations capitalize "black" and not "white". That expresses racial bias, and I disapprove of it.

Imagine if prejudice were centered on hair color, rather than skin color. People would argue that the adjective "blond" is an identity and demand to capitalize it.

I prefer not to capitalize either of them, because I would rather not promote the implicit assumption that skin color is a difference in kind rather than a detail. However, if it becomes common to capitalize them both, I will go along with it. It isn't worth fighting about this sort of adjective capitalism.