If Jesus lived in the UK today, he's be punished for "extremism".

Christians have committed plenty of extremist oppression, when they have political power, but I am not sure that can be blamed on Jesus, given that we know little about what he actually said and did. The earliest documents were written many decades after he died.

US troops joined with Kurds to rescue Kurdish fighters captured by PISSI.

The rescue is a good outcome, and I hope the US will cooperate increasingly with the peshmerga. However, I hope this does not mean the start of a continuing US ground intervention.

What Putin says appears much nastier when mistranslated.

The FCC has slashed the cost of interstate phone calls for prisoners by a factor of as much as 100. They remain shockingly expensive by modern standards.

Meanwhile, gouging is still allowed on phone calls within a state.

The Liberal Party in Canada probably has no intention of giving Canada the progressive vision it appeared to promise, but perhaps Canadians can pressure it to do so.

There is nothing to lose by trying.