Indiana is trying to prohibit abortion if done on the basis of the sex, race or disability of the fetus, and Kavanaugh could be the deciding vote to approve it. This concept of nondiscrimination makes logical sense, if you accept the irrational assumption that a fetus is a person.

I've warned for years that the campaign against sex selection by abortion endangers abortion rights in general. That theoretical threat has now become real.

The campaign to prohibit sex-selective abortion is motivated by disapproval of the sexist bias that usually motivates sex-selective abortion.

I too disapprove of that bias. However, the practice of voluntary sex-selective abortion does not mistreat any women (unlike most other manifestations of sexist bias, which do lead to real wrongs to real women). To ban the practice would not prevent any wrongs, only make a symbolic declaration against sexism.

I think we should defend women's right to have an abortion for any reason whatsoever, and use other methods to make symbolic declarations against sexism.

Judge Orders Georgia to Stop Tossing Absentee Ballots, in Rebuke to GOP Candidate (Kemp).

I am sure Kemp will try to appeal this; I expect that the right-wing extremists that dominate the Supreme Court will invent some stupid excuse to permit Kemp to rig the election, just as they invented an excuse to make Dubya "win" in 2000.

GM tracked the choices of radio programs in its "connected" cars, minute by minute.

GM did not get users' consent, but it could have got that easily by sneaking it into the contract that users sign for some digital service or other. A requirement for consent is effectively no protection.

The cars can also collect lots of other data: listening to you, watching you, following your movements, tracking passengers' cell phones. All such data collection should be forbidden.

But if you really want to be safe, we must make sure the car's hardware cannot collect any of that data.

Nowadays, anyone can spend any amount of money on influencing US voters, as a result of the Corporations United decision.

Puerto Rico's imposed nondemocratic government plans to pay too much to the creditors, using implausible forecasts of economic growth as an excuse.

Any payment to the creditors is too much. Puerto Rico's debt should be canceled.