How great can capitalism get—“HOMER, Alaska—Alaska natives in Nanwalek want to add their dying language to the high school curriculum. The village’s last fluent speakers are asking the school to make Sugt’stun eligible for academic credit. But the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District points to budget cuts, federal education standards, and Nanwalek’s low test scores, saying the 200-person community must concentrate on English and math.”—USA Today

Don’t start sputtering—If you’re a wild-eyed rational thinker you may pose the question: Why don’t they build more shelters? Why don’t they provide decent low-cost housing? Why don’t they give the homeless social rehabilitation and living-wage jobs? What are you, a socialist?

‘Care’? They don't know how to spell it—“LONDON: Thousands of elderly people at English nursing homes are being given the wrong dose of medicine or the wrong drugs…almost half of England’s nursing and care homes fail to meet standards on medication.”—The Times, London.

Here today—“Study doubles estimate of smog deaths—University of Southern California researchers amass measurements of lethal particulate in the Los Angeles basin.”—Los Angeles Times headline and sub headline.

Great hunting—“Ohio: Dayton—A site that for decades produced fuel for nuclear bombs is being transformed into a home for rabbits, geese, turkeys, crayfish and other wildlife. By year’s end the former uranium processing site 30 miles southwest of Dayton, will be a U.S. Department of Energy-run park of woodlots, prairie, wetlands and savanna.”—News item.

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