*Comparing Poverty in India and America May Surprise You.*

Debt causes conceptual problems in making statistics about people's wealth. If one household has a $300,000 house and debts of $320,000, while another household lives in a tent and has debts of $20,000, is it meaningful to put both of them in the -$20,000 bucket?

"Challenge questions" generally give very bad security and users forget the answers.

I treat them like passwords.

(satire) *Ornithologists Attribute Owls’ Nocturnal Lifestyle To Hard Cocaine Habit.*

How thug unions campaign to protect brutal thugs. And sometimes corrupt thugs too.

New York City's thug union got the city to keep from the public the records of investigations into violent thugs. It turns out that over 10% of them were found to have violated the department's limits on use of force.

*We asked [thug] departments about viral videos showing cops escalating violence against protesters. Most refused to name the officers or provide updates on their investigations.

Edward Snowden: *The Age of Mass Surveillance Will Not Last Forever.* But he reminds us that it continues nearly unhampered today, in the supposedly free countries.