George Monbiot argues for "political rewilding" — allowing politics to evolve without being centrally managed by parties.

*[Senator] Schumer Revealed as Key Industry Ally in Defeat of Effort to Curb Surprise Billing.*

Stated less tersely, Senator Schumer, a plutocratist Democrat, privately pushed hard to protect hospitals' right to charge you thousands of dollars that your medical plan won't cover, if any one the separate billable treatments or services you received when you were unconscious in the emergency room was provided by someone outside of the plan's network.

New Zealand gun owners handed in (and were paid for) 56,000 now-prohibited guns, and almost 200,000 now-prohibited gun parts.

Since such guns are no longer being sold there, I think these guns represent a permanent decrease in the danger of mass shootings.

Perhaps the US should be obligated to welcome as refugees all the people who are compelled to flee by the consequences of its foreign interventions. That rule would make officials less eager to intervene.

A proper statement of the real rule of a pottery store is, "If you break it, you have to pay full price for the pieces."

Unfortunately, no one knows how to fix a country that has been devastated in this way, not even with billions to spend. The Marshall Plan worked well in western Europe, but that may be because the beneficiary countries already had traditions of democracy, business, unions, and other things, which only needed to be resuscitated.

Understanding the bullshitter's supporters as a cult. He fits the profile of a cult leader.