San Francisco has built a public toilet for only 200,000 dollars.

The toilet's existence is an improvement, but the city can't afford to do the whole job if it is that expensive.

If the city required every restaurant, while it is open for business, to allow any orderly person to use its toilet, it would have thousands of toilets available for the public, and the total burden of taking care of them could be far less.

A description of violence by Israeli colonists (often helped by soldiers) against Palestinians in the West Bank part of Palestine.

New Hampshire Republican crazies are working on repealing the existing vaccine requirements for polio and measles. The danger this poses to other people will not be limited to the children of right-wing fools.

There should be no religious exceptions to the duty to protect the whole population from dangerous diseases by getting yourself and your children vaccinated. The only exception should be for medical reasons, in case a person for special medical conditions cannot be vaccinated.

*Taiwan pledges to remove 760 statues of Chinese dictator Chiang Kai-shek.*

The US was hypocritical to claim to be defending freedom by supporting military dictators in Taiwan until the 1980s. But, ironically, freedom had the last laugh; Taiwan is a democracy now.

What to do with all the removed statues? Here's an idea: add old weapons and make them into a mockery of an ancient dictator's terra-cotta army.

Governor Sununu, Republican, proudly told America he would swallow any lie in order to make a Republican the next president. "Grab power" is all that the Republican Party stands for how -- that and intimidating mainstream organizations that might dare to condemn those lies,