The governor of Bali reassures foreign tourists and visitors that the prohibition against sex outside of marriage won't threaten them in Bali.

There are other places in Indonesia which are also interesting to visit, but maybe they won't be safe.

More importantly for Indonesia, this law also restricts freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

No country should allow a prudish religion any influence in its laws. Laws driven by Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism are causing cruelty and repression around the world.

Although no court has proved that Governor Snyder conspired to put the people of Flint at risk of lead poisoning, we have plenty of reason to believe he and his high officials did so. I can't put him in prison, but my conclusion is that he's guilty, partly because the ideology of the Republican Party is to do things like that to the poor, weak, and disprivileged.

*Biden faces growing pressure to drop charges against Julian Assange.* Pressure is coming from Australia and Brazil, as well as American defenders of freedom of the press.

So phone the White House and say, drop the charges against Assange — reporting on leaked dirty secrets must not be a crime. The Capitol Switchboard numbers are +1-202-224-3121, +1-888-818-6641 and +1-888-355-3588.

If you phone, please spread the word!

Lula has sued Bolsonaro for various reasons, one of which is accusing the country's computerized voting system of being vulnerable.

Bolsonaro has done much to undermine democracy and elections in Brazil, and morally deserves punishment. However, the general claim that Brazil's computerized voting system makes Brazil's elections vulnerable is valid. That is because the machines record only totals, and do not keep individual paper ballots that voters marked by hand. Such systems are vulnerable to someone, somehow.

Brazilian experts campaigned against this system when it was adopted, demanding a system that enabled the results to be audited, but they lost the battle.

There is no evidence that anything wrong happened in the voting machines in this election, but Brazil should change to an audit-able voting system for the sake of the future.

China does not allow fair trials. To bias the trial of opposition publisher Jimmy Lai to be fair, China kicked his British lawyer out of Hong Kong.