The Happy Planet Index measures how efficiently a country gives its citizens a long and happy life. The champion country is Costa Rica.

The bullshitter is planning a deal to give Salafi Arabia nuclear fuel to play with; meanwhile, the butcher (acting king) has said he wants to develop nuclear weapons.

The US claims to be going all-out to stop Iran from doing exactly this; if Salafi Arabia did it, that would be even worse.

A Massachusetts bill would establish very strict privacy rules for the data collected by digital toll collection systems.

This is good, but to really respect drivers' privacy calls for an anonymous way to pay tolls.

The ACLU has made a city near St Louis stop evicting people for calling 911, but many others have the same lousy rule.

Arguing that the reason housing is so expensive is that there are ways to use it for money laundering.