A gene therapy treatment, which we can call parzyl, costs almost a million dollars.

There is something sleazy going on with the generic name, "voretigene neparvovec-rzyl". Even to write it is a pain, and as for pronouncing it, should we treat it as English or as Polish? I don't know of any language other than Polish in which "rz" has a meaning.

In effect, the drug theoretically has a generic name, but not in practice. So I suggest calling it "parzyl".

The troll threatened to cut funds for Palestinians, but there are two ways that could be done.

Cutting US funds for the Palestinian Authority would hamper it from helping to maintain Israel's dominion over the West Bank. Cutting US funds for UNRWA would starve Palestinians both inside and outside of Palestine.

That the troll hypocritically supports Iranian protesters should not mean we cannot support them honestly.

However, support for a protest means support for its demands. What do they demand?

When they demand higher wages, I support that in a general way, though really it depends on what changes they demand so as to make wages higher.

When they demand continued subsidies for fossil fuels, I can't agree.

If they demanded a secular state with human rights, I would support that demand, but they don't.

Obama cut military funding to Pakistan in 2011, then found that the US needed Pakistan so much it had to restore the funds.

Texas Police Chief Hands Over Undocumented Smuggling Victims to Local Organizations, Shunning ICE.