Australia has prepared a plan to save the swift parrot from extinction, but it was designed not to protect against the biggest threat, which is logging.

A Tory activist is on the BBC board and decides what counts as "impartial" in the news.

*Real Estate CEO: Recession Could Be "Good" If "Unemployment … Puts Employers Back in the Driver Seat."*

In a purely journalistic site, "Executive will not regret suffering for the masses if it increases rich people's power" might not count as news. It is too much like, "Dog wants to bite man." But I'm publishing political notes, not news.

On the importance of remembering slavery and commemorating its history.

The article is about slavery and Britain, but even though the history in the US is different in detail, the point is basically the same.

*Identitarianism is Incompatible with Humanism.* The Council for Secular Humanism declares to judge and treat individuals and their ideas based on the group identities each is assigned to.