How curious that middle- and lower-income Americans who feel with some justification that they have been treated with disdain by an increasingly arrogant and selfish plutocracy turn for leadership to a sleazy, arrogant and narcissistic member of the plutocracy.

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The Zika virus is leading to calls for massive pesticide spraying to kill mosquitoes carrying the virus. The trouble with that is that such spraying will also kill the bees upon whose pollination much plant and animal life depends. Bees are already in decline, a continuation of which could pose an existential threat to humans.