The only way to enable homeless people to have toilets to use and avoid harassment by thugs is to require businesses to allow non-customers to use toilets.

It is not only the homeless that will benefit from this. Every pedestrian will occasionally need to use a toilet. Sometimes I have found myself on the street with hands sticky from eating a fruit, and couldn't find a place I could wash them. The YMCA showed how committed it is to charity by refusing to let me use a sink.

The objections that businesses might have are selfish and callous, and not worth even considering.

I've advocated this for a long time.

Phony scientific journals do more than give "scientists" a way to say that they have published papers. They also give companies a way to create "scientific" evidence for their products.

I suspect that Philip Morris and AstraZeneca can buy more prestige for the places they publish their marketing materials. Some pharma companies have been found ghostwriting articles for professionals to sign, and even setting up "journals" to publish articles to boost their products.

Three thugs in Georgia tased an old woman who had a knife, which she was using to cut dandelions.

Then they strained to charge her with crimes to fabricate a justification for their act of gratuitous violence, which could have killed her. Tasers can kill people of any age, but I'd expect someone 87 years old to be more vulnerable.

With the knife, she could potentially have hurt a thug, but she didn't threaten to attack. It is part of a thug's job to recognize the difference between a conceivable threat and an actual one; to disregard that difference is contempt for the public. The thug chief should be fired for trying to excuse that.

Facebook faces a US government complaint for racial discrimination in housing advertisements.

The ten years since the fiscal crisis demonstrate that Keynes is still right: deficit spending leads a country out of a crisis, while government budget cuts make it worse.

Why do today's economists so often refuse to recognize this? I think they are pandering to rich people that will profit from shock capitalism.

The full potential of budget-cutting disaster was visited on Greece, and Greeks will continue to be effectively serfs of the euro-banksters for decades more.