**Republicans aim to pass national "don't say gay" law.*

These laws spread broad fear because Republicans have a pattern of stretching the repressive potential of any law that fits their ideology. We cannot judge these laws by interpretations that would be reasonable.

* Three Louisiana men incarcerated for over 28 years were found to have been wrongfully convicted of murder on Wednesday, after newly uncovered evidence linked the original police investigation to a notorious [thug] found guilty of murder conspiracy and endemic corruption in the New Orleans police department.*

*The Litany of Lies the GOP Tells in Order to Destroy Public Education.*

UC Berkeley is "repatriating" over 50,000 "sacred items" to indigenous groups.

Imagine if everything in museums that had come from a church or temple, from an idol or a statue of a god, all ancient scriptures and myths of whatever religion, or anything that was associated with them, were "returned" to someone! There would be almost nothing left about the ancient world. It would be a calamity for anthropology.

At least there is not much danger that this will be extended to artifacts from Europe, or most of Asia. So far, people of European and Asian ancestry are not trying to extend this policy of excluding our own ancestors and past from anthropology. But there may be little trace in 2050 of cultures from the Americans, Australia and Africa to compare them with.

For what it's worth, I see nothing wrong with digging up the graves or artifacts of people related to me for the sake of scientific study. And that includes my own "remains" — but I've arranged for scientists to get first crack at those, after my death.

Chinese thugs came out of the Chinese consulate in Manchester, England, grabbed a protester, and beat him up.

British political leaders including Tories said that peaceful protesters must not be attacked in the UK, which makes an interesting contrast to the ways they plan to attack protesters in the future.