I am looking for people to write a recipe for how to connect to the WiFi in a Mcdonalds without running its nonfree Javascript code. The recipe could include a free Javascript program I could run, or it could consist of instructions for what I would type into IceCat (our variant of Firefox). It doesn't have't be super convenient, it just has to work.

The National Science Foundation concludes that genetically modified foods are not particularly dangerous, nor particularly important for our food supply.

It is clear that the widely grown GMO foods generally do not hurt the people who eat them. If they did, medical records would show it.

That doesn't mean they don't hurt wildlife. The widespread use of Roundup, generally with GMO food crops, has done a lot of harm to milkweed and to monarch butterflies. However, each kind of modification is a separate different issue as regards environmental harm.

So far, we don't see instances in which a certain crop has several quite different alternative forms of genetic modification. If that starts to happen, consumers might want labels to indicate which genetic modifications are used in a given food.

Many older Americans don't dare retire, because they are supporting their children or grandchildren.

"Roughly half of the money raised to oppose a ballot measure to legalize recreational marijuana in California is coming from police and prison guard groups, terrified that they might lose the revenue streams to which they have become so deeply addicted."

The same reasons they oppose the measure are reasons why the public should support it.

The extremists that occupied the Malheur wildlife reserve come from a movement of kooks who want to privatize large amounts of land in the American west, and believe that they are entitled to own it.

In fact, private development is spreading rapidly in the west, though it would take centuries at this rate for all the land to be built over.