Saboteur Zinke has given Florida an exception from the policy of drilling for oil on all coasts. This is an explicit act of favoritism.

The UK has privatized housing for asylum seekers, with the results you would expect if you read my political notes: broken shower, broken heating, broken furniture, mold, mice, run by a company that manages to hear complaints and forget them.

How could you expect the company to do its job? Profits are its first priority.

New York City Plans to Divest $5bn from Fossil Fuels And Sue Oil Companies.

The divestment is aimed at specific large fossil fuel companies.

Over 100 Democratic congressional candidates support the OFF Fossil Fuels Act. For the rest of them, the question is, "Why not you?"

Pakistani human rights activist Aasim Saeed was kidnaped and tortured by state savagery forces.

Catherine Deneuve and other women condemn the current sexual "witch hunt", saying that people should not be punished for overtures such as tentatively putting a hand on someone's knee or stealing a kiss.

In other words, sexual invitation should not be automatically defined as sexual coercion.

Critics immediately condemned the signatories as "apologists for rape", but this misrepresents them totally.

An overture has to cross the line of usual behavior, or it doesn't function as an overture.

If you hope your overture will be accepted, you will try to make it in a way that will inspire "yes" rather than provoke "no". However, few are such masters of human relationships that they never mess up an overture; every overture is risky. The resulting anxiety can itself make you mess up. Thus, there has to be slack for people who go a little too far — a way to teach them more finesse and gentleness, rather than ruin their lives.

Overtures cannot go very far beyond the line. This is not a matter of intentions, it's a matter of actions. A stolen kiss, to be an acceptable overture, must not be pushy — meaning no pushing the tongue into someone's mouth. Calling groping an overture doesn't make it a legitimate overture — groping is an attack. As for masturbating in front of someone, the idea of that as an overture is ludicrous … except perhaps in an orgy.