The bully follows the Orwellian practice of redesignating enemies as friends on the spur of the moment, as if nothing had changed. "Cruz, or Eastasia, has always been our friend."

The latest impulse for deforestation in Malaysia is to make durian plantations.

To have a high standard of living for all humans in the future, we need to make a lot fewer humans.

Municipal employee pensions have been underfunded in many US cities. They may be unable to pay the retirement funds that they promised.

The article argues for privatization of pensions, but that has its own dangers. Many people will be lured into speculation by sales agents that are more persuasive than scrupulous, and some of will lose their whole pensions and end up out on the street.

Arizona yielded to anti-vaxers by cancelling an educational program for parents of students about vaccines.

Most of the people that objected had not seen it.

Lyft has spent $100,000 to campaign against the initiative to tax big companies in San Francisco in order to help the homeless.

For the long term, what we need is to build considerably more housing in places accessible by mass transit.

For the longer term, we need to have few children so as to decrease the population. Then the existing housing will suffice.