The bigot-in-chief has discovered where the line is, as important advertising channels reject his racist ad.

Fanatical Hindus assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in 1948. Now their successors are trying to take over universities so that Gandhi cannot be taught.

A general weakness of democracy in the English-speaking countries is that people demand low taxes above all.

I want fair taxes, meaning that the rich can't get out of paying their high, fair share.

A federal judge wants to allow a request to the jury to exercise jury nullification, shocked as he is by a 15-year prison sentence for a no-op.

Of course, I support jury nullification. That is, indeed, the reason why trial by jury is a fundamental right.

I also agree that the "interstate commerce" clause of the constitution has been stretched too far. It is hard to find anything, nowadays, that it could not cover; and if it has been interpreted as universally inclusive, that proves it has been misinterpreted. This is especially bad nowadays, seeing as the federal government is a plutocracy and democracy remains only in state and local governments (where not abolished locally by Republican election-rigging).

If we ever reestablish democracy in the US government, perhaps we should give the federal government power over activities that have major effects on the economy, social conditions or environment of the whole country or world, to compensate for narrowing the interstate commerce clause.

I would never make, or propose to make, a recording or photo of sex, or of a nude woman, if she did not mean it for publication, or at least insist that its publication wouldn't bother her. I am sure I would never publish it against her wishes, but she might not be as sure of that as I am. Then there is the risk it might leak or be stolen. The image would create gratuitous anxiety. I'd rather avoid the anxiety by not making the thing at all.

On Orango Island, the irrational traditional religion protects the forests and maintains solidarity, while the irrational evangelical church would introduce the "brotherhood" of extractivist competition.