The US calls for an immediate cease fire in Yemen.

Better late than never.

It was the US that kept the conflict going. When the US and Salafi Arabia intervened, the Houthis were rapidly defeating the previous government. If they had not intervened, the war could have been over more than a year ago. Iran is no friend of al-Qa'ida; the Houthis might have suppressed it there. And no one would be blaming the US for intervening.

Some states continue to resist the "Real ID" program which tries to make US state driver's licenses act as national ID cards.

I am disappointed with those states that have gone along with this.

Netflix may have trouble with its business model.

That business model is based on mistreating the public in three ways: DRM, tracking users, and imposing contracts that restrict the user (EULAs).

Any one of them would make it totally unacceptable. Flick off Netflix!

If we refuse to do business with Netflix, we might wipe it out!

The US will avoid war with Russia over Syria, it seems.

(A sigh of relief is heard.)

It can occasionally be correct to go to war to free people from a tyranny and give them freedom and democracy, but first we must make sure that (1) the people in question want to be helped in that way, and (2) freedom and democracy are likely to actually result. In Syria, (1) may be true for some, but I don't see any way to achieve (2) there.

A lawsuit against Exxon charges "climate deceit".