Uruguay's congress has voted to legalize marijuana.

The people who say that cocaine users started with marijuana could equally well say they started with beer, or mate, or water. Nearly all of them surely used those three first.

US citizens: tell Sallie Mae to stop supporting ALEC.

In the US: join a protest on August 4 against massive surveillance.

A competition for making a commercial scale biofuel factory that would operate from plant waste reiterates that we should not be making biofuels from plants that use water, fertilizer or land that could grow other crops.

Florida has refused to investigate how an FBI agent killed Ibragim Todashev. It would be embarrassing if an investigation found it was murder.