The UK proposes to move the Museum of Military Medicine to Cardiff, in Wales, and has received a surprising variety of objections.

Some of the objectors are using the issue for Welsh nationalism. I don't sympathize with Welsh nationalism so I am not impressed.

Some want to preserve the existing park with its full size. Would building it on a city block be better? The expense might be prohibitive, though.

The Houthis have agreed to let the United Nations inspect an abandoned tanker filled with oil in 2021, but experts warn the ship may start leaking massive quantities of oil any day. That leak would kill the marine life in the Red Sea.

Why did Chicago thugs break the door of Ms Young's house, find her there naked, then handcuff her naked and refuse to give her a blanket to cover herself with?

The third step, handcuffing Ms Young without letting her put on any clothing, was an act of callous contempt, very likely reflecting ingrained racism. But the wrongs did not start there.

The first step, seeking to enter that house, reflected incompetence: they didn't bother to check that the person they were looking for lived next door. Disdain, perhaps racist, is surely part of why they did not bother.

The second step, breaking down that door, was due to excessive willingness to do harm violent. Even if they had chosen the right house, they shouldn't have done this. Owning an illegal gun doesn't mean a person is inclined to shoot if thugs use a megaphone to say "Police, open up!" Disdain, perhaps racist, may be part of why they did not bother.

Perhaps Chicago should do what Camden, New Jersey did: disband its hopelessly corrupt, violent and racist thug department and start a new one.

Credit rating scores now control who can rent an apartment or get hired for a job, as well as who can get a loan. Other mysterious algorithms decide who gets welfare or medical treatment.

The root cause of many of these problems is the general US approach of being stingy towards the poor and suffering. The basic motivation for that is that the rich keep demanding a bigger share of everything.

Transparent and valid ways of evaluating people would be an improvement, but we can do better than that. For many of these purposes, we shouldn't evaluate people at all. We should help everyone who needs help.

With Medicare for All, everyone would get medical care, eliminating any need to judge people. If we had a policy of giving poor people housing, we wouldn't need to evaluate people for that either. With a guaranteed basic income, whether you can get a job would be less important.

And credit ratings should be used only for loans.

Mexico has passed a new "security" law that would undermine cooperation between Mexican government agencies and the US Drug Enforcement Agency agents that operate in Mexico. Those agents would have to give all their information to Mexican agencies that would probably leak the information to the gangs.

If you think of the issue as how to fight the "War on Drugs", this change is foolish and self-defeating. But that war is itself foolish and self-defeating. Maybe Amlo is trying looking for an excuse to pull back from it.

If the US legalizes and strictly regulates sale of drugs, the Mexican drug gangs would lose a major source of their income. That could be more effective than the DEA will ever be.