US college seniors: Are you graduating from college in the US this year? Did you get Bill Gates's "gift" of gratis download of a book?

If so, can you tell me (1) whether you can download it without running any nonfree software, (2) whether it has DRM, and (3) whether you have to agree to a jerkmaking "no sharing, no lending, no giving" contract before you can get a copy?

UK spies still have intelligence collaborations which involve torture by partner countries. This despite having been ordered not to do so.

Hotel and restaurant workers in Melbourne are learning not to tolerate wage theft and unbearable schedules as normal.

How the cheater turns vagueness to the service of lies and bullshit.

I suggest not paying attention to anything he says. Focus instead on what he and his henchmen are doing.

Irrational mob violence against non-English-speakers has flared up in the US a number of times since 100 years ago.

Foolish people do this because non-English-speakers make good scapegoats. I wonder, do billionaires speak some special language we could ban?

I have to correct one flippant point: English did not become dominant in what is now the US in the 17th century. I've read that around 1800 German seemed to be the most common language in the US of the time, though I can't be sure that is accurate.

The US expanded westward in the 19th century to lands that surely didn't use English much before that. After the US conquered parts of Mexico in the 1840s, the inhabitants continued speaking Spanish for quite some time.