*What a teacher in hiding can tell us about our failure to tackle intolerance.* British campaigners for Islamist censorship of "blasphemy" stirred up violent hatred against the teacher of a class that was studying religious hatred and the means used to stir it up. Now, three years later, perse is still hiding from the death threats they inspired.

Google was caught tracking users' browsing even when they had enabled "incognito mode". In the settlement of a lawsuit, Google has agreed to destroy the data it thus collected.

Abuses like tracking the actions of users cannot be excused by mere consent.

*EU pumps four times more money into farming animals than growing plants.*

Arguing that Justice Sotomayor should retire now and thus ensure her replacement can be chosen by Biden. I agree.

Justice Breyer was going to stay on the court until death, but he yielded to this same argument and retired so another Liberal could take his place.

Proposing to pay farmers to grow trees instead of cows, as a way of ending global heating.

As stated, that proposal is too simplistic. There are many places on Earth where the native ecosystems did not include many trees, including the Great Plains in the US.