Boeing fired an executive for an essay he published in 1987. Some employee complained that the essay made per feel "unsafe" even though he had retracted it long before. Insanely, the company validated that complaint.

Golightly's 1987 essay represented patriarchal thinking which never made sense to me. For some reason, I never picked up the usual sexist habits of judging people's behavior; I took for granted that right and wrong were the same for females as for males.

I have also never understood the "male bonding" that the essay refers to. No such thing happens with me. (Perhaps this is why I don't care about team sports.) If cohesion of a military unit depends on that, men like me should be rejected from the military.

These days I admire Kurdish and Yazidi women fighters, as well their male comrades, because they are fighting against gruesome, hellish tyranny: PISSI. And sometimes against dictators that attack them (Assad, Erdoğan).

However, when it comes to the US, I think American women, and American men, should be in combat a lot less than they are now. We need to end America's forever wars, most of which had no justification even at the outset.

Analyzing the insufficiencies in the Sanders-Biden climate plan.

I disagree with that analysis in regard to carbon taxes. If the tax rate increases fast, and if the tax is on actual emissions and not some weasely "net emissions", it could impose powerful pressure to cut down use.

AIPAC's power is diminishing; it can no longer force members of Congress to endorse Israel's occupation policies.

(satire) before boiling a lobster, use this handy sedation kit.

I once came across a suggestion: before boiling a lobster, put it on trial for cannibalism (lobsters eagerly eat baby lobsters) and sentence it to death.

When it comes to human criminals, I oppose the death penalty unconditionally, but cannibal lobsters are a different issue.

WHO: give up on the idea of a "return to the old normal"; the world needs strong anti-transmission measures or Covid-19 will keep spreading.

(satire) *… officials from the Trump administration reportedly planted 137,000 corpses in Anthony Fauci’s bed Monday to frame him for the country’s coronavirus deaths.*