Present day algorithms for grading student essays can only look at the form and structure — they can't understand what the essay is about and can't distinguish valid from invalid arguments. Thus, they will teach students to write superficially plausible bullshit.

That might help the ones who want to become president of the US.

Running school admissions by algorithm can very easily make stupid or unfair decisions.

Cash is the only kind of money that keeps working when a disaster knocks out communications.

Thugs in Toronto systematically stop blacks and hispanics for no reason except (apparently) their skin color. On one recent occasion the thugs beat one of them with a metal pipe and destroyed his eye.

The Americans mobilized by the Russian "blacktivist" campaign say their activism was real and sincere, regardless of the organizer.

US veterans and soldiers are coming to recognize the troll's basic dishonest and manipulative nature.

I don't criticize the troll, or any American, for avoiding the Vietnam War. I wish every American had avoided it — then Americans would have been better off, and Vietnamese would have been far, far better off.