As the Great Salt Lake shrinks, it releases the carbon it has stored over the ages.

For-profit colleges fund the right-wing extremists in Congress that ignited the persecution of students protesting atrocities in Gaza.

For-profit colleges are often predatory, and some were shut down for this a few years ago.

I've recommended prohibiting them in general, to avoid the need to prove wrongdoing case by case, because that situation tends to encourage predatory behavior.

Some countries charge a household a very low price per joule for up to a specified low rate of energy use, and a higher price per joule for additional energy beyond that necessary minimum. That eliminates the danger of shut-offs for the poor, and assures that high fuel costs won't crush them.

Note that a kilowatt hour equals 3.6 mega joules. Any kind of energy can be measured in either of these units, and any system for delivering energy could be covered by a charging system like this one.

Women as national leaders are no longer unusual, and we have seen enough of them to recognize that they run the gamut of good and bad qualities, just as men as leaders do. Women, as leaders, do not systematically have any particular important qualities. And no leader is perfect.

Thus, we can't find a good national leader by choosing by gender. We should judge a candidate by what per goals and values, and per abilities — not by aspects of per identity.

It was reprehensible of Starmer to expel Labour MPs for voting to help poor British families, but entirely justified to stop local governments from blocking power cables for wind-powered generators. Hundreds of millions of human lives, if not more, are at stake in decarbonization — aesthetic preferences are hardly sufficient reason to delay that work.

However, a creative compromise may perhaps soothe some of the opposition. Is it possible to design power pylons to serve the humanities as well as human survival?

Could pylons, and cables, support homes for endangered birds and bats? Could the hanging meadows of Britain help re-wild the land? If disused drilling platforms can help wildlife survive, maybe pylons can too.

Might some of them act as scaffolding for colossal art works and installations, or sport walls for rock climbing competitions, or be painted with amusing designs?

If buried cables are cheap enough that burying them won't interfere with saving civilization, by all means bury them. Otherwise, the pylons are coming to save us and we should rejoice.