Tories made Stephen Smith fight for his legal right to welfare payments in the UK even as he was so sick he was not supposed to leave the hospital. This is standard practice for Tories. And yet their supporters shrug it off.

Suggestions for how US news media should cover global heating so that the urgency will come across.

I will add one other suggestion: call it "global heating", not "climate change".

Chelsea Manning's appeal against imprisonment was rejected, but she continues to refuse to testify.

One effect of global heating: the hay fever season lasts longer.

Thugs often make Facebook accounts under aliases to spy on other useds of Facebook, such as unauthorized immigrants.

I cannot join the EFF in pressing Facebook to enforce its real-name rule more strictly, because that rule does harm to others. Facebook should relax that rule for non-thugs rather than enforce it more strictly on thugs.