Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5 Million in Ransom

No one is exactly covered in glory. Yet it is somehow fitting tidings for a shabby, blustering time. Colonial Pipeline Co. paid nearly $5 million to Eastern European hackers on Friday, contradicting reports earlier this week that the company had no intention of paying an extortion fee to help restore the country’s largest fuel pipeline, …

Scotland 2021

The protests took place as new MSPs were sworn in to what has been described as Holyrood’s most diverse parliament, taking their oaths is British Sign Language, Arabic, Urdu, Punjabi, Doric, Scots, Gaelic, Welsh and Orcadian, and after an election in which refugees had voting rights for the first time in Scotland. Guardian

Selling good intentions, getting bad results

One of the things progressives are good at is selling good intentions, whether racial justice, climate justice, clean energy and/or Middle Eastern peace. However the path to these laudable goals wends through riots, resegregation, carbon taxes, gas shortages and renewed war in Israel. Why is that? One theory is these bad things — like the …