*I Stopped to Watch [School] Recess in My Neighborhood — and Security Was Called.*

The Jan 6 investigation committee has subpoena'd five Republican members of Congress to testify.

An Australian MP is demanding a "Christian lobby" stop using her picture on a hostile leaflet, on grounds of copyright.

I don't know the details of the "religious discrimination bill", or why they call it that. (The coverage of that bill in The Guardian presumed too much background for me to understand it without too much work.) On general principles, if an incumbent elected official in a mainly Christian country is attacked by a "Christian lobby", I probably I disagree with that lobby. Most likely I would agree with MP Sharkie if I knew what the issue was.

However, it is clear that freedom of political speech includes the freedom to show a picture of a candidate you oppose. It is an injustice for copyright law to interfere with that.

One of several causes of the US shortage of milk substitutes for babies is too many mergers.

Parents in India are suing their son for the money that they blew on his fancy wedding and his professional training, because he and his wife don't want to have babies.

I suspect that the parents were as much responsible for making the wedding expensive as the couple. Fancy weddings are a form of competitive consumption, which in general can become a compulsion. Resisting it is a crucial part of wisdom.

India's population is growing substantially, and the consequences will cause great suffering in a few decades for almost everyone in India, and contribute to the suffering of the rest of the world.