In Burma, Buddhist extremists attack women's rights, sex education, and any discussion about sex.

The Buddha would advise those monks to question their attachment to those prejudices.

I expect there is a word in Burmese for "vagina", but it was omitted from the dictionary because it is considered too rude.

SCROTUS and Obama imposed the "sequester" as a "compromise" to cut the US budget in all areas. Now they have a new "compromise" that expands the war budget, while threatening Social Security and Medicare.

Selling oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, when the low price suggests buying it instead, is sabotage of the treasury. "Buy high, sell low" is stupid, except when (as here) it is worse than stupid. Ultimately, plutocratist politicians betray the country to their paymasters.

SCROTUS stands for Sleazy Congressional Republicans Of The United States.

The Antarctic ice sheet is gaining thickness inland due to increased precipitation there.

This doesn't alter the observed rise in sea level, so it means the increase is coming from some other unknown source.

A discussion of sex-work trafficking in Wisconsin has been totally confused, because it is based on blindly labeling work by teenagers as "trafficking", and equating their customers to pimps.

Thus, when the article talks of "rescuing" minors from sex work, we can't tell how many have indeed been rescued from pimps, and how many saw their customers arrested and felt compelled to pretend to be grateful.

No good can come from willful blindness about this difference.

Minors that do sex work are called "trafficked" even if they do it by choice and have the option to stop at any time. No wonder that, according to the article, many of the minors that are "rescued" from "trafficking" choose freely to go back to it. Maybe they chose it freely the first time, too.

The article acknowledges that they do this because their other options are very bad. That's where they could use some help. But the state of Wisconsin won't give them that.

I wonder how much of their problems are due to Wisconsin's Governor Walker and his attacks on aid to the disadvantaged, as well as political ethics requirements and campaign finance laws.

His policies are just the thing to force poor people into some sort of underground economy.

Wang Yam was convicted of murder in the UK by a secret court. Why is the evidence secret? That's a secret too.

Wang Yam is now trying to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, but the government has arbitrarily vetoed this.