In the rural far north of Vietnam, thousands of young women are kidnaped and sold into sexual slavery. The prices paid for women can corrupt entire local families to help kidnap them.

As usual, a crucial cause of the problem is the ingrained custom of blaming the victims. I suspect this is part of why the purchasers of the kidnaped women often treat them so badly: the men who had them kidnaped despise them for having been kidnaped.

From the point of view that judges people by their actions, this attitude seems incomprehensible.

The saboteur-in-chief has pardoned Joe Arpaio, who was convicted of carrying out ethnic profiling in defiance of a court order to stop.

This is an attack on the fundamental ideas of human rights and rule of law. Laws are meant to protect people from abuse of state power. Prosecutions such as that of Arpaio are the way we stop officials from spitting on that protection.

With this pardon, the troll tells his followers that they are welcome to break laws and abuse their power, as long as it they do it for reasons he supports. In other words, that laws can no longer protect us from tyrants and bullies.

A few Christian fundamentalists have rejected the planet-roaster blindness, and are trying to convince the rest.

It isn't easy, because US evangelicals have made contempt for the world that they are destroying an integral part of their religion. In effect, their religion is a satanic nihilism.

Italian thugs evicted hundreds of refugees from a collective squat, beating them cruelly in the process.

TV channels that profit from presenting the troll as a freak show are giving support to his power.

The first thing you can do to resist is not to watch.

Whatever the troll says is of no importance. He will say something contradictory tomorrow. Watching him is at best a waste of time. Spend your time on resistance activities.

If you are with friends or relatives that want to watch, take advantage of the opportunity to set a visible example of not joining in. Say, "I'm going to do something useful (or, something I really want to do) instead."