US citizens: call on the Department of Justice to investigate Florida's decision to ban toilets from being available at voting places.

Ukraine's government has started military action to recover control of some eastern cities.

The armed groups that have taken control of buildings and streets are either rebels or invaders, or a mix of the two. Referring to them as "terrorists" is a smear, however: they have shown no inclination towards violence against anyone but soldiers. This verges on war, but it is not terrorism.

That point might seem like quibbling, but it is very important. If we want "free" countries such as the US and the UK to stop making opportunistic accusations of "terrorism" against protesters and journalists' lovers, we should object whenever the term is stretched.

A UN investigator was barred from the UK's privatized prison for people to be deported.

Arguing that a real technological singularity, as Vernor Vinge envisioned it, is not likely to occur, especially not any time soon.

Please do not buy his books (or any books, or anything else) from Amazon!

Boko Haram Islamist fanatics kidnaped 100 schoolgirls as they were taking an exam.