US citizens: call on Congress to support diplomacy with Iran.

The Capitol Switchboard number is 202-224-3121.

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The bullshitter challenges Democrats to debate with him.

There can't be a real debate with the bullshitter unless there is a referee that can penalize him. Otherwise, with each utterance, the bullshitter will make up a new lie, and At the end, he will say, "I won!"

New Zealand is considering adopting a law to give an artist a share of the sales price when per work is resold. This raises a number of moral issues.

New Zealand's proposed law it applies only to works that sell for more than a thousand dollars. I would not begrudge 50 out of that for the artist. As a practical matter, I'd be content with this law.

However, it is being presented as "intellectual property" and used to boost the public's respect for that confused over generalization.

A scientific summary of the possible effects of the Omicron variant, depending on three parameters that scientists are working on measuring.

The defense lawyers in the Guantanamo kangaroo court accuse the prosecutors of bending over backwards to conceal information about how the accused were tortured. They say it conceals more from them than it concealed from journalists making FOIA requests.

This information is pertinent to the legal question of whether the court should consider confessions that they gave a few months after the end of their four years of torture. The fact that this question needs to be asked demonstrates the injustice of these courts.