The Australian government found a cute way to shift the blame for insufficient spending and taxes onto the states — so taxes won't be raised, and hospitals and schools will continue to run short.

Indigenous people do not have a right to demand "return" of everything that they gave or sold to Europeans, nor a right to control all the ideas of their culture.

No one has a right to a monopoly over a cultural practice. An Australian indigene has no more right to enforce ownership over a style of artifacts, or all its examples, than an American has the right to enforce ownership over jazz, rock or rap. And people have the right to make fusions of these with other styles, too.

If you don't like those fusions, don't watch or listen to them.

"We won't accept a coup": Brazilians rally to defend president Rousseff even though they were not her supporters.

Many physical retail stores have stopped ordering products for ordinary sale. Instead, they tell customers to order the product on the internet, then show a government photo ID to pick up the product.

This is a massive surveillance system. I won't use it, and I hope you will reject it too. Don't reward or encourage surveillance!

When I buy things, I absolutely refuse to give any personal information. The store has a right to my payment. If the store demands more, I say "no sale".

The big record companies, through their tentacle the RIAA, are pushing to make the DMCA even nastier.

Americans have not fought hard enough to demand repeal of the DMCA.