Bullying often results from being bullied.

A Moroccan editor has been imprisoned for posting a link to a news article that linked to a "terrorist" video on YouTube.

The fact that the video is on YouTube, a US company, adds additional absurdity to the accusation. However, posting links should never be a crime.

I've been told that Morocco liberalized its laws around 2000 to respect human rights more, but Dubya pressured Morocco to retract part of the change. In general, "anti-terrorist" laws are more dangerous than terrorists.

Snowden explains how he made sure Russia could not get any US secrets from him: he got rid of all his secret files before he went to Moscow.

He also explains why reporting the injustices of the NSA's massive surveillance to the people responsible for doing it would have been completely futile.

I admire Snowden tremendously. He recognized what needed to be done, and he planned it with the greatest care. Thank you, Snowden!

Only one thing went wrong: he got stuck in Russia. He must hate receiving shelter from Putin.

The Republican Party pretends to represent black Americans, in addition to pretending to represent white Americans.

The Republicans' US government shutdown has done tremendous damage to scientific research, in many cases causing a lasting setback.

The Republicans probably consider this a victory, because they consider science a threat to their fantasy world.

It would be useful to prepare a reserve fund to preserve strains of lab mice, for when the Republicans try it again.