The obtuse absurdity of the Tories' cruel cuts: to give more money to the rich, they have cut care for the disabled. A blind, quadriplegic man has to pass hours in which he can't even go to the toilet, or get something to drink.

The council, denying him this needed support, suggested he keep a pot of tea nearby, although he would be unable to see it or lift it.

The evident purpose of transferring these funds to local council was so that they would be spent on something else instead. That enables larger cuts in other areas, since parts of those cuts will be transferred to disabled people. Meanwhile, the government can claim, deceptively, that it hasn't cut the funds for the disabled.

The Tories appointed bombastic bullshitter Boris Johnson as foreign minister. The French foreign minister said, correctly, that he is a liar.

I don't have much respect for the French "socialist" government, which is selling out French workers to kowtow to banksters. However, I am happy to see this comment.

A US court ruled that thugs need a search warrant to use a stingray to track someone's portable phone.

I expect this will be decided later by an appeals court or the Supreme Court. If the decision is ultimately upheld, it will only give us back a little of our privacy, and I will still decline to carry around a portable phone.

The Minneapolis thug department used a DMCA takedown notice to censor redistribution of its embarrassing recruiting video.

Assuming the video wasn't made by the federal government, it doesn't have to be in the public domain; but this redistribution is almost certainly fair use.

Use of copyright for censorship is common practice, and should not surprise us since our copyright system was first established in England under Queen Mary as a system for censorship.

Americans seem to trust Trump more than they trust Clinton.

You can always trust Trump…not to mean what he says.

Clinton should stand down for the good of her party. It's not too late.