This is advice about talking with people who are grieving, from someone who has listened to many grieving people talk about it. As I read the article, I thought of the friends and relatives I have lost. I have a list of the people I've lost via death, and every so often I go through it and think about each one of them.

I frequently felt grief for the English language while reading the article, each time I came across plural pronouns and verbs alternating with singular pronouns and verbs, referring to the same one person.

I have never understand the idea that it was obligatory to try desperately to avoid reminding someone about a loss. In my experience, I recall a raw loss frequently, whether anyone reminds me about it or not. That's what the author says, too.

Recalling the death of a friend years ago is not agony, more of a distant regret. It reminds me of feeling at ease with that person in the past. By contrast, recalling an old rejection can be devastating, since it was probably my fault.

Scientists have solved the crucial problem of genetically engineering wheat. They plan to produce heat-resistant varieties.

If they go on to make flood-resistant varieties and drought-resistant varieties of wheat, wheat could be safe against extreme weather. Hmm, better make that varieties which are flood-resistant and drought-resistant.

But what about wildfires? Can any wheat plant be fire-resistant?

The article says nothing about whether these new varieties of wheat will be patented, or restricted by plant variety monopolies. If they are, their use will have an enormous cost for farmers, and will further concentrate wealth for the richest few, at the expence of everyone who eats wheat.

The world must exempt food, all forms of food plants and animals, from imposed artificial monopolies.

Windfall profits taxes in Europe permit fossil fuel companies to deduct the amount they invest in access to fossil fuels.

That is the usual way of handling taxes on business, but it will lead for bad results with fossil fuel investments. There is no room in the carbon budget for more fossil fuel wells or processing capacity, so investing in those things should be forbidden. If it can't be forbidden just yet, at least it should not be tax-deductible.

As reporter Dion Rabouin was interviewing people on the street outside an office of Chase Bank in Phoenix, a bank employee asked him what he was doing. Soon a Phoenix thug showed up, handcuffed him with no apparant excuse, and made him sit in a police car, threatening violence along the way.

Someone made a video of this harassment, and the thug threatened to arrest per as well.

It is common in the US for thugs to arrest journalists for recording how they treat members of the public. It is less common for cops to come and threaten reporters for journailsm that does not involve cops at all.

The reporter worked for the powerful Wall Street Journal, which has demanded explanations.

US citizens: call on leaders in Congress and Transportation Secretary Buttigieg to fine airlines that cancel flights for reasons other than weather, and allow states to participate in enforcement.