Spain's right-wing government has imposed a million-dollar fine for some protests, and large fines also for publishing photos of thugs.

The latter one seems to be intended to stop people from documenting the thugs' violence. The people of Spain, under repression, need to develop networks for anonymously posting evidence outside Spain.

The same law also represses insulting a thug. Many thugs do things which provoke well-deserved insults. Prohibiting insults against anyone is inexcusable censorship.

I will suggest to people in Spain that they turn the word "policÃa" into an insult. Then it will be possible to insult a thug just by saying "es un policÃa", and it will be difficult for them to prosecute this.

Why Afghanistan's government can't stand unless propped up by the US.

In addition, it oppresses women almost as much as the Taliban would. Do the people of Afghanistan want the US to prop up this government indefinitely at the cost of continuing the war?

High levels of phthalates in mothers' blood is associated with a decrease in IQ for their children.

Since the experiment that would prove without a doubt that phthalates damage IQ would be unethical, there is no use waiting in the hope of clearer proof. The US should follow Europe in banning phthalates in anything meant to come in contact with food or people's bodies.

Elizabeth Warren fights hard against Wall Street, but doesn't talk much about permanent war I will vote for her if she is the Democratic candidate (which I would not do for Ms Clinton), but I'd rather have Bernie Sanders running, since he opposes both Wall Street and permanent war.

How to break the DRM on Keurig coffee pods.

I think that coffee pods are a bad idea because they involve more nonbiodegradable waste.