Afghan women disguise some daughters as sons, so the daughters can experience a little freedom, and so the mothers themselves won't face condemnation for sonlessness.

Tiny Cuba is contributing more to the fight against Ebola than the grand United States.

There is good and bad in the Cuban revolution. The good is that Cuba has thrown off the foreign plutocracy and done wonders for the people in the areas of health care, education, and organic farming.

The bad is that Cuba does not recognize freedom of speech or freedom of travel. Dissident Oswaldo Pay reportedly killed by the state which arranged a car crash and blamed his driver.

Pay> The US boycott of Cuba is makes no sense except as a sop to the exiles who have a lot of influence in Florida.

US billionaires have hundreds of millions of dollars stashed in IRAs so as to avoid taxes.

It makes sense to encourage the non-rich to save. With the rich, however, this is just another dooH niboR give-away.

Beware the Fear Industrial Complex.

The head of IPCC says, avoiding global heating disaster is still possible, but we don't have much time.

This means that wreckers such as Abbott, Harper and Cameron need only hold out a little more before they can hammer in the last nails in the coffin of human technological civilization.