One doctor in the US continues to aim to treat people's chronic pain, rejecting the pressure to take as his goal to "get them off opioids" and tell them to live with the pain.

I am looking for people to help webmasters of various sites (not related to me or GNU) make simple but substantial changes in their web sites — for instance, to use the GNU Project's recommended terminology.

Some countries that hate Iran are supporting the Mujahedeen-e Khalq, hoping it will destabilize the semidemocratic, semitheocratic regime in Iran.

The Mujahedeen-e Khalq started out running a guerrilla war against the Shah. Depending on details, maybe that was admirable, since the Shah was a US-imposed tyrant. Eventually the Mujahedeen-e Khalq entered a guerrilla war against Khomeini's murderous theocratic regime, which at the outset was as bloody as PISSI. Depending on details, maybe that was admirable.

Nowadays, though, the organization is an authoritarian cult that is even religiously more strict than the Iranian regime. It is funded by enemies of Iran as an instrument of destabilization.

Republican congresscritters bought medical insurance stocks just before they voted for the Dontcare bill.

Thus they arrange to fill their own pockets a little as well as filling their billionaire masters' pockets a lot.

A series of human irrationalities, plus some factual errors, enable privileged Americans to believe that poor people are bad or stupid and deserve their poverty.

One point not mentioned here is that growing up in poverty and stress tends to reduce children's intelligence and to teach them bad habits for making decisions. When poor people make mistakes that keep them in poverty, that is partly because they grew up in poverty under a system that stressed them so they couldn't develop the capacity to decide better.

Millions of English children today live in situations that tend to do that.