A French teacher was suspended for showing a gruesome horror film to 11-year-old students.

I don't think children should be pressured to watch such a thing. Some can handle it, and some can't, so we should make sure they can easily avoid it if they wish.

I would not want to see it, myself. I avoided the film Alien because, fortunately, I saw the story in a less impactful comic book form and knew what the film would do to me.

However, the fact that some of us find a work disgusting and painful to see is no excuse for censorship.

Thomas Drake: All you need to know about so-called oversight is that the NSA was already in violation of the [PAT-RIOT] Act by the time it was signed into law.

He also explains, from his own experience, why it is totally useless for whistleblowers to take such complaints to the "chain of command".

Soot from combustion is making the ice on Greenland darker, and that has caused it to melt faster than ever observed before.

This means that sea level could rise, in this century, much more than the one or two meters now predicted.

The US Constitution was always a piece of paper, but it had real power while people respected it.

Instead of a social contract, what we have now is a business-to-business contract.

GMO companies' false claim: that their crops help the poor.