"The Abbott government is paying lip service to the renewable energy industry because it knows speaking its mind would be unpalatable to the public."

Abbott is proposing new planning controls on wind turbines in Australia, based on fantasy science which claims that the noise from them harms people. There is no evidence this happens.

North Carolina Republicans, fearing their voter ID law may be found unconstitutional, added another option that is very difficult to use so that they can claim people can vote without ID.

Japan is planning to resume whaling in defiance of the IWC.

DNA testing of the Kennewick Man skeleton shows that the deceased was related to modern American Indians, and suggests a relationship to the Colville tribe which claims the skeleton, but not conclusively.

I hope that further research on living people and other ancient finds makes it possible to get a more conclusive answer.

If a closer relationship were established, that would be very interesting scientifically, as it would show that a small ethnic group continued to live in the same area for 9,000 years.

Thugs in Ohio considered a mother and children at a swimming pool a menace to the public. The mother was merely arrested, but one 12-year-old girl in a bathing suit got pepper sprayed and several of her bones were broken.

As usual, the thugs made false accusations against the victims.

There have been only 9 days this year when US thugs didn't kill anyone, but there are no official statistics about many vital questions about violence by thugs.

Unjustified killings by thugs are extreme cases of police brutality. Lesser levels of violence are far more common, and represent similar attitudes and habits. Thus, we can change thugs' attitudes and habits more effectively by punishing the more frequent lesser incidents.

Perhaps we should apply "broken bones" policing to the thugs, or even "broken word" policing by punishing them when they make false accusations against their victims.