US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to oppose war with Iran.

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US citizens: urge the Senate to insist on getting all of Kavanaugh's records before considering his nomination.

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Someone went to the trouble of packaging nerve gas in a perfume spray bottle and sealing it in a box, just like new, and leaving that as a deadly booby trap for whoever happened to pick it up.

Since the novichok nerve gas is hard to make, a state was surely involved in doing this. But one can only guess why.

(satire): a new supermax "detention center" will imprison the most hardened toddlers.

California's renewable electricity program has been attacked in a way that seems fallacious to me.

Landfills and sewage treatment plants are needed in any case, and they produce methane day in and day out. I think that this methane qualifies as renewable.

As long as factory farms exist, the same is true of them. You may wish to abolish factory farms, but as long as they exist, it is good to burn their methane for electricity. That is better than dumping it into the air (it is a powerful greenhouse gas) even if we use solar or wind power to make the electricity.

If someday conditions for farms are reformed, collecting and burning their methane waste would still be a good thing, if it is still feasible.

Likewise for paper mills. It could be good to improve them to generate less waste, if that is possible, but until that time we should burn the methane rather than let it into the air.