Dr Fauci proposes requiring vaccination for domestic US flights.

I am in favor of this. Anything that gets more Americans vaccinated will save American lives and help beat Covid-19. Of course, there will be an exception for people who for medical reasons must not be vaccinated.

Over recent decades, US truck drivers' wages have gone down, their working conditions have got much worse, and they are made to work long hours, including many hours of unpaid waiting.

Drivers' unions have been mostly broken, and most of them are treated as gig workers.

No wonder there is a shortage of truck drivers.

Satellites launched by SpaceX threatened collision with China's space station twice this year. The US should not permit SpaceX to do that.

China aside, Starlink's planned 12,000 satellites would increase the danger of collisions that would produce more space junk. Despite the best of care in choosing their orbits — which SpaceX appears not to have taken — it will be dangerous. So it should never have been approved. No activity should get approval for thousands of satellites.

To say "China does wrong too" does not constitute an excuse. In space, and on Earth, we must work together to avoid disaster, not argue about who is worse.

California's record-breaking December snowfall is not enough to end the years-long drought. Without more snow in the rest of the winter, the water shortage will continue to get worse.

* Court instructs [Shell] to stop [seismic] tests along Wild Coast [of South Africa] after concerns raised about wildlife and lack of consultation.*

What this suggests to me is that government regulators failed to do their job, failed to enforce regulations. Perhaps Shell's money played a role in bringing that about.