Cody Wilson has been charged with hiring a "child" sex worker. Her age has not been announced, but I think she must surely be a teenager, not a child. Calling teenagers "children" in this context is a way of smearing people with normal sexual proclivities as "perverts".

They have accused him of "sexual assault", a term so vague that it should never be used at all. With no details, we can't tell whether the alleged actions deserve that term. What we do know is that the term is often used for a legal lie. She may have had — I expect, did have — entirely willing sex with him, and they would still call it "assault".

I do not like the idea of 3D-printed guns, but that issue is entirely unrelated to this.

Efforts to reduce the extent of extreme poverty in Africa are faltering because people in sub-Saharan Africa are having too many children.

These efforts are like trying to bail water out of a boat while the leak gets bigger and bigger.

The funds and aid aimed at increasing people's well-being there should be redirected toward avoidance of births there. Once the population is stabilized, and global heating disaster perhaps avoided as a result, we will have a better chance to raise the existing people out of poverty.

The US army has been building up eroding beaches for 30 years, by dumping sand on them. It's fine as long as it works, but global heating and sea-level rise will make this ineffective at an increasing number of places over the coming 30 years.

Besides which, Republicans will need the funds for more wars.

French police seized models of the Eiffel Tower that were being sold to unauthorized immigrants to resell to the public.

No word on whether they found gold in some of the confiscated models. ;-)

When I was in Paris, I saw the Eiffel Tower. What an eyeful!

Uganda's opposition leader (and pop star) Robert Kyagulaniy returned there after fleeing briefly to the US (he had been tortured in Uganda). On returning to Uganda, he was arrested.