Picking up trash at home while black: Boulder thugs found a black college student sitting in front of his house, armed with a trash picker and a bucket, and called for backup to harass and menace him.

This incident did not go as far as some: they did not shoot him or arrest him. But he must have feared that they would. It was a clear example of racism, since they had no non-racist grounds to bother him at all.

Boulder deserves a thug chief who will recognize that racist thugs are a far bigger danger to the peace of the city than picking up trash around your home.

These smaller incidents are far more frequent than killings. That makes them a good opportunity to teach thugs to be less thuggish. Frequent small punishments for small wrongs have much more teaching effect than big punishments for the occasional big wrongs.

US citizens: call on Congress to fully fund the rebuilding and healing of Puerto Rico.

US citizens: call on the Justice Department to publicly hold thug departments accountable for the deaths of people they are holding prisoner.

(I reject there emotionless term "custody" for being held prisoner.)

Bernie Sanders talked about his personal history. He knows all about the poverty, and the plutocratic system that magnifies it.

Global heating has cut off Isle Royale National Park from the Michigan mainland, blocking local wolves from interpreding with mainland wolves and resulting in an excess of moose.

The so-called "balance of nature" is often very fragile. It often readjusts to a change with a plethora of other changes, sometimes bigger than the first change.