There are many on-line shops that try to be ethical alternatives to Amazon.

I appreciate many of the ways in which these stores try to be more ethical. (I do not wish to be vegan, though.)

However, they are all spoiled by not offering the two primary dimensions of ethical treatment of the customer: (1) anonymous purchase and (2) not imposing use of nonfree software. So I decline to use them.

Aside from that, when buying clothing, food or books I generally want to see the product before deciding. With clothing I want to try it on. With prepared food, I want to taste it. With a book, I want to browse it. Nowadays it is hard to try on clothes even in a physical store, and hard to taste the food, but I hope that will come back.

In December, the wrecker's minions started a plan to literally privatize Medicare. If Biden does not stop it, it will continue to run.

But things were not ok in Medicare before that. Years ago, Democrats approved an insurance industry plan to embrace, extend and undermine Medicare: "Medicare Advantage" plans, described here by Ralph Nader.

Nader is being a little too harsh here. On a radio program on March 5 he said that Sanders was giving single-payer medical care low priority for now because Biden said he would veto it, so Sanders decided to push on other issues where he thought progress was possible.

In that program, Nader and his guest, Kay Tillo, explained why and how "Medicare advantage" plans are a trap: they cost less for people who don't have major medical problems, but cover less for those who do. And if you make that choice when you are 65, your preexisting conditions may deny you the option to switch to the older "medigap" option back when "Medicare advantage" becomes expensive.

Since then, progressive Democrats have introduced a single-payer bill.

Georgia disregarded the voter registration forms of thousands of Korean-Americans, and used outrageous criminal charged to shut down their voter registration organization.

The new Canada Infrastructure Bank is designed to give handouts to big business.

On reconciling appreciation of Winston Churchill's tremendous achievement — defeating Nazi Germany — with reprehension for his racism and his support for dooH niboR.