Correction about Republican candidate Herschel Walker: the woman whose abortion he paid for in 2009 was not his son's girlfriend, as I wrote. She was, rather, his own girlfriend. It appears I misunderstood some of the text in the previous article.

Paying for her abortion was the right thing for him to do. We should not criticize him for that — not in the slightest. (In a country with a good national medical system, she would not have needed such help, but that's a different issue.)

When Walker has done which does deserve criticism is (1) advocating a ban on abortions in the future, and (2) covering up his history to win support from others who want to ban abortions.

It does children no favor to bring them into a world in which climate crisis is developing into climate disaster — so please help avoid it. Avoiding this will also help stop the process short of total disaster.

OPEC has decided to cut supplies of oil and drive the price back up.

If it were only a matter of prices and the short-term economy, I would recommend that the US ship a lot of oil — that would really screw OPEN. However, the most important issue at stake is global heating and the disaster we must avoid. To do the right thing now means helping people get through this winter, in ways that will reduce the long-term demand for fossil fuels.

The climate emergency has already started. We need to push hard to avoid disaster. Most Americans understand this, but rich planet-roasters dominate the media.

A Welsh thug has been convicted of attacking a teenager for making a video of the exterior of a police station. The thug said he had decided to assume arbitrarily that anyone making a video of the police station was a terrorist.

The judge described the victim as a "vulnerable boy". This suggests to me that the judge may believe there are people who are "not vulnerable" and that it would have been acceptable to attack one of them this way. I don't think so.

(satire) *Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy stated Wednesday that a lack of mental healthcare in schools was precisely what got him where he is today. "My political career is a great example of what a completely broken mental healthcare system can create, and every kid deserves that same opportunity." *