An indigenous activist has rejected Australian citizenship and everything that goes with it. He is in jail for driving without an Australian driver's license, and refused to acknowledge his former Australian name to get bail.

The original wrong here was by the British colonizers, who declared that Australian land was nobody's property so they could simply take it all. The indigenous have a valid claim for compensation and some sort of agreement to recognize their rights. However, letting them drive without taking driver's tests is not the solution, just as kicking out the Australians is not.

Proper sex education helps teenagers start thinking about sex in a deeper way than porn suggests.

The entrance to the school-to-prison pipeline: black children that misbehave get punished, while comparable white children get therapy.

Partly it's because black children are segregated and go to schools that can't afford therapy. Partly it's due to racism (perhaps unconscious).

A large part of consumer capitalism is based on exploiting foolishness.

It would be a mistake to try to divide all transactions into "fool" or "not fool". If you want a TV and you spend $1000 when a $600 model would have been good enough, maybe that was 40% fool and 60% non-fool.

On the other hand, if that TV snoops on you, it was 100% fool.

Shell has yielded to public pressure and stopped funding ALEC.