US citizens: call on members of Congress to support the SAVE Benefits Act.

US citizens: phone your senators to oppose Obama's nomination of Robert Califf to head the Food and Drug Administration.

He is too much in bed with the pharma companies to regulate them properly, and we must suspect he wouldn't want to try.

US citizens: ask congresscritters to sign the Ellison-Yarmuth-Dingell letter calling for a political resolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Portuguese celebrate because an anti-austerity coalition is going to take power.

Moroccan actress Loubna Abidar played a sex worker in a film which Morocco banned. Then she was attacked by a mob on the street, and hospitals would not admit her. She fled the country.

I blame these events on the prejudice against sex workers. The film made prejudiced Moroccans uncomfortable by showing that sex workers exist there, so they took it out on her.

Many other laws reflect this prejudice, which I have never understood.