The richest people and poor people do similar peccadilloes, but when poor people do them, people say they are bad and deserve to starve.

One of these peccadilloes, "promiscuity", is bad only in the eyes of prudes. There's no reason you shouldn't have sex with various people, if you enjoy that and have the opportunity, provided you take care to avoid spreading diseases and babies.

"It's naive to think college athletes have time for school." Evidence shows they don't have time to succeed in their studies.

Big-time college sports teams are a tumor on the side of education, a perverse way of funding colleges based on inculcating a bizarre obsession into the students (even the non-athletes). It didn't take with me; I never once attended a sports event during my own college years. I simply decided that teams were a distraction of no importance.

With public funding of college — and if we stop employers from asking about education that the job doesn't need — we could cut out the tumor.

The main damage from hurricanes comes from storm surge and voluminous rain. High-speed winds do damage too, but it is much less. So we should rate hurricanes based on the expected water damage.

A cop confronted a black child reported to have a gun … and behaved like a police officer instead of a thug.

He did not shoot, and the reported gun turned out to be a BB gun.

Sub-leaders of the Republican cult are trying to smear Jamal Khashoggi so as to protect the repressive regime of Salafi Arabia, because their leader says Salafi Arabia is on their side.

It appears that Khashoggi covered Osama bin Laden's activities in the time when al-Qa'ida was supported by the US to defeat the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.