US citizens: call on Obama to nominate commissioners for the Federal Trade Commission who will defend people from abuses by businesses.

Tasmania has the same problem as Venezuela: shortage of rain leads to shortage of electricity.

One of the predicted effects of global heating is bigger and more frequent droughts, as well as bigger and more frequent floods. We will more and more often find big expensive hydropower dams high and dry, leading to more use of fossil fuels. This is a positive feedback effect, and they make it even harder to escape disaster.

But we can still escape, if we push hard enough in the right direction.

When car loans impose a remote shutoff device, loan companies can use this power to get away with cheating.

They have various habitual ways of screwing customers. Pushing across the line, to see if they get away with it, is their way of life.

I think it should be a crime for companies associated with selling or insuring a car to put remote shutoff or interference devices into cars.

"Tax Havens Don't Need to be Reformed. They Should Be Outlawed."

Over a set of comparable Austronesian cultures, human sacrifice was more common in the societies with less equality.

Nowadays millions of people are effectively sacrificed by the Cult of the Invisible Hand.