Likely climate tipping points could lead to much larger global heating in the lifetime of most people reading this.

We don't know enough to say for certain whether it will happen, but ignoring the danger is lunacy. Why do so many people go in for such lunacy?

Restaurant managers say they don't make waiters pay for customers that leave without paying. But waiters say they are forced to do this.

Distrustful of real experts, young people are turning to bogus expertise such as astrology.

Serious astrology, based on a person's entire chart, has been tested very thoroughly, and was a complete wash-out. An experiment compared all the variables of the astrological chart with all the variables measured by a thorough personality test, and found no relationship whatsoever.

Israeli land-thieves build a "settlement" on a Palestinian family's land, protected by soldiers of course.

In the dirty gang war in Northern Ireland, between the IRA terrorists and "loyalist" terrorists, UK thugs used threats and blackmail to force people to become informers.

I am unable to reach a moral conclusion about these informers, because of the imponderable consequences described in the article.

Many Americans in the 70s and 80s supported the IRA's goal of separating Ulster from the UK and incorporating it into Ireland. I never saw anything desirable about this. What good is there in satisfying a certain number of Catholics by disappointing a larger number of Protestants? In any case, Ireland was a repressive Catholic theocracy, banning abortion, contraception, even divorce. I could hardly wish a government like that on anyone.

Ireland has almost eliminated its previous theocracy. Soon it will probably legalize abortion. Perhaps soon there will be no substantive reason for Ulster Protestants to oppose uniting Ulster with Ireland.