Last August, the Business Roundtable — an association of CEOs of America’s biggest corporations — announced their companies would "[invest] in employees, delivering value to customers, and supporting outside communities. Since then, they have become even nastier.

California has sued Uber and Lyft for classifying workers as "independent contractors" despite the new law that requires treating them as employees.

Bravo, California — but even if the companies yield and obey the new law, I will reject these companies for the bad way they treat their customers: requiring them to identify themselves and run nonfree software.

Right-wing "reopen" protesters in Kentucky hung the governor in effigy, and even Republican politicians condemned it.

At last we see a limit to how much political hatred mainstream Republicans will tolerate.

Columbia Sportswear Sought to Crush a Warehouse Union Drive as the Pandemic Approached.

Britons are enraged at Bogus Johnson for lying to excuse an aide, Cummings, who drove for hours to meet his parents, breaching anti-contagion guidelines that have been presented in very rigid terms.

For the most part, separation practices are wise practices because they reduce transmission of Covid-19. In Massachusetts, they are mostly not mandatory, but I don't care — I practice them nearly all the time anyway.

However, there is no reason to practice them with a stupid robot's rigidity regardless of how small a risk would be avoided.

I go to a supermarket once or twice a week, because that is the only way I can get food while not being identified by the store. I define "safe" in terms of my freedom and my privacy as well as my health; keeping safe calls for estimating the various risks.

I also need to take the subway to my bank occasionally to deposit checks.

Once in a while I get take-out from a restaurant or get ice cream. I don't need to do that, but there is no reason to make a fuss about it, because the added risk of this is small compared with the risk of the rest.

I wear a mask when I go out, not because some places say it is required, but because I want to avoid the chance of possibly infecting anyone. Rule or no rule, it is the right thing to do.

The British separation rules are, in overall, treated too rigidly, but they are good rules for the most part. They should be a little less rigid for everyone, but not specially for a few politically important people.

Nothing can excuse Johnson's history of lies.