In the US, troubled kids are treated if they are white — and punished if they are black. A court will consider whether this is illegal.

Evidently the system is racist, but why? The people who decide how to deal with these children might be bigots. Or they might unconsciously make biased decisions, influenced by the child's race. Or they may judge some students harshly because of secondary characteristics that in fact are correlated with race.

Or perhaps the schools black kids attend tend to be underfunded, desperate, and harsh.

Today's unchecked form of capitalism allows the invisible hand to crush people and toss their corpses on the scrap heap.

The capitalism that the US had in 1970 was much better than the kind we have today. Thus, I don't conclude that any whiff of capitalism is bad, the way Ayn Rand thought about community. Rather, I say that capitalism must be compensated by community, and effectively regulated by democracy.

I am looking for people to monitor web sites for news articles I might be interested in.

It's too bad people are afraid of irradiating food to kill germs and parasites.

Saudi Arabia is dropping cluster bombs in Yemen.