US farmers are becoming shy of nonfree software in their tractors, which screws them.

In a tractor, a car, a phone or a laptop, nonfree programs are an injustice. The intentionally weak term "open source" holds users back from recognizing that point. The term was coined to steer people away from demanding freedom in their computing. Calling freedom-respecting programs "open source" leads people to ask, timidly, "Please, sir, may I have some more leeway," rather than saying they deserve freedom and mean to get it.

Don't let "open source" thinking hold you back from claiming your rights. Please join us in insisting that our software must respect our freedom. See http://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html.

At most 8% of the prisoners Obama has released from Guantanamo have gone into fighting the US. On the contrary, many of the prisoners have become rather magnanimous, given the circumstances.

The issue is a distraction anyway. If someone did fight for the Taliban and was captured, he ought to be treated as a prisoner of war (thus, kept in Afghanistan). If someone planned or committed crimes, whether terrorist or other, he deserves a fair trial.

Florida effectively legalized sexting by teenagers — by mistake.

The Shame of US Journalism Is the Destruction of Iraq, Not Fake Helicopter Stories.

Making big fusses about minor lies, to distract from important issues, has been a feature of US politics for a long time. Remember when Clinton (the other one) was impeached for lying about a private sex act?

Americans used to burn captives to death.