US citizens: call on the Senate to reject Tom Marino as drug czar. I gave this message:

Please reject Tom Marino as "drug czar." Then please reject everyone and anyone that might be nominated for that office. Its only purpose is to pursue the harmful and deadly "war on drugs".

Professor Wax at the University of Pennsylvania was rebuked by the administration for publishing some conservative suggestions for making US society better.

I think people should be entitled to make such statements, and we should judge them on their merits.

People will respect education when education brings them either respect or the opportunity to enter a profession.

I strongly believe that people should not have children unless they can afford to raise the children properly — but punishing poor people for having children tends to imply punishing the children, and it isn't the children's fault. The best way to discourage overreproduction is to make effective birth control available gratis.

As for respecting authority, let's have authority that can earn some respect. It's hard to argue for respecting violent thugs, or court systems that treat poor people as money trees, or a president that got into office through cheating.

The London subway ("underground") intends to track passengers' movements by the wifi interfaces of their phones.

Stores already do this. It should be illegal for anyone to set up such a system to surveil people in general, except with a specific court order.

A list of members of Congress that took money from the NRA to oppose gun control.

Two New York thugs arrested and handcuffed a woman, then took her away and raped her.

They say she consented, with handcuffs on.

The thug sergeants' association insists that thugs should enjoy impunity for anything they do. Especially sergeants.